It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.42.
[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 4.7 mas,[1] it is located about 730 light years from the Sun.
55 And is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −7.6 km/s.
[8] This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K1 III,[3] which indicates it has exhausted the hydrogen supply at its core and evolved away from the main sequence.
It is radiating 436[2] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,290 K.[3] It has a magnitude 10.90 visual companion at an angular separation of 59.00″ along a position angle of 357° from 55 And.