With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.07,[3] it is faintly visible to the naked eye on a dark night.

The distance to this star, based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.96 mas,[2] is around 364 light years.

However, Houk and Swift (1999) list a classification of B5 IV/V, suggesting it may be transitioning into a subgiant star.

[5] It has served as a uvby photometric standard, but is also categorized as an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable[6] with a suspected period of 15.4 days.

This lengthy a period conflicts with a relatively high projected rotational velocity of 85 km/s, leaving the explanation for the variance unresolved.