Eta Crateris also lies to the right (west) of the bright star Gamma Corvi.

This star is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.17.

[2] With an annual parallax shift of 12.97 mas as seen from Earth,[1] it is located around 280 light years from the Sun.

At that distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.08 due to interstellar dust.

[4] Eta Crateris is an ordinary A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A0 V.[3] It is about 2.7[6] times the radius of the Sun and radiates 48.5 times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 9,687 K.[7] It 350[5] million years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 65 km/s.