With an apparent visual magnitude of +4.6,[2] this star is visible from suburban or darker skies based upon the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale.

From parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission, this star is at a distance of 256 light-years (78 parsecs) from Earth.

[8] Pi2 Ursae Majoris is a member of the Milky Way galaxy's thin disk population.

It is following an orbit through the galaxy with an eccentricity of 0.10, which carries it as close to the Galactic Center as 27.7 kilolight-years (8.5 kiloparsecs) and as far as 34.1 kly (10.5 kpc).

[3] Based upon observed radial velocity changes in the star, in 2007 the presence of a planetary companion was announced.