Based on parallax measurements made by the Gaia mission, it is approximately 49 light-years from the Sun.
[12] In Chinese astronomy, Alchiba is called 右轄, Pinyin: yòuxiá, meaning 'right linchpin', because it stands alone in the 'right linchpin' asterism, Chariot mansion (see: Chinese constellations),[16] 右轄, yòuxiá was westernized into Yew Hea by R.H.
Alchiba has a spectral class F1V,[3] classifying it as a main sequence star fusing hydrogen into helium at its core.
It is four times more luminous and has a surface effective temperature of 7,035 K,[9] giving it the yellow-white hue of an F-type star.
The abundance of chemical elements other than hydrogen and helium, what astronomers name metallicity, is slightly lower than that of the Sun.