It is visible to the naked eye under good viewing conditions with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.269.
[2] The distance to 49 Andromedae, as determined from its annual parallax shift of 10.4 mas,[1] is around 314 light-years.
[2] With an estimated age of 1.75 Gyr[2] years, this is an aging red-clump[6] giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III,[3] indicating it is generating energy by helium fusion at its core.
The spectrum displays "slightly strong" absorption lines of cyanogen (CN).
The star is radiating 71[2] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,879 K.[2]