53 Cancri is a variable star in the zodiac constellation Cancer, located around 960 light years from the Sun.

This object is a challenge to view with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude around 6.

The star is moving further away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +14 km/s.

[4] It has expanded to 87 times the radius of the Sun, and its bolometric luminosity is over a thousand times higher than the Sun's at an effective temperature of 3,622 K.[2] In 1969, Olin Jeuck Eggen announced that small vaiarions in the brightness of 53 Cancri had been detected.

[8] 53 Cancri is a semiregular variable that varies between magnitude 5.9 and 6.4 with a period of 27 days.