Based upon an annual parallax shift of 5.60 mas as seen from Earth,[8] it is located roughly 580 light years from the Sun.

At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.1 due to interstellar dust.

[3] This is an evolved, G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8 IIIvar,[3] where the 'var' suffix indicates a variable spectral feature.

[5] It is radiating 185 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,966 K.[1] Epsilon Sagittae is an optical binary, with a companion of magnitude 8.35 at an angular separation of 87.3 arc seconds along a position angle of 82°, as of 2013.

[9] The companion is actually a more distant giant star approximately 7,000 light-years from Earth, with a luminosity 1,800 times that of the Sun and also designated HD 232029.