Alpha Octantis is a binary star[12] system in the constellation of Octans.

It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-white-hued point of light with an overall apparent visual magnitude of approximately 5.13.

[3] The system is located approximately 148 light-years away from the Sun based on parallax.

[6] This system is a bright X-ray source with a luminosity of 22.78×1029 ergs s−1.

[13] The system displays an infrared excess suggesting the presence of two debris disks; the first has a temperature of 450 K and is orbiting at a distance of 1.40 AU from its host star, while the second is a much cooler 40 K and orbits 187.8 AU from the system.