It also bore the traditional names Ruchbah and Ksora; the former deriving from the Arabic word ركبة rukbah meaning "knee",[9] and the latter appeared in a 1951 publication, Atlas Coeli (Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens) by Czech astronomer Antonín Bečvář.

[16] Consequently, the Chinese name for Delta Cassiopeiae itself is 閣道三 (Gé Dào sān, English: the Third Star of Flying Corridor).

[18][19] The combined apparent visual magnitude of the two stars is 2.68, making it readily observable with the naked eye.

[8] An excess infrared emission has been observed at a wavelength of 60 μm, which suggests the presence of a circumstellar debris disk.

This emission can be characterized by heat radiated from dust at a temperature of 85 K, which corresponds to an orbital radius of 88 Astronomical Units, or 88 times the distance of the Earth from the Sun.