[13] It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.89.

[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.2508 mas as seen from the Earth, it is located 395 light years from the Sun, give or take 7 light years.

The star is moving nearer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of −15 km/s[6] This is an evolved giant star of type G with a stellar classification of either G7 III[3] or G8 III[4] depending on the source.

[9] The star is radiating 173 times the Sun's luminosity from its expanded photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,881 K, giving a yellow hue.

[15] As for Alpha Microscopii, it was found to be a probable spectroscopic binary in 2014.