It has an apparent magnitude of about 5.4, meaning that it is faintly visible to the naked eye.

Based upon a parallax measurement of 13.81[1] mas made by the Hipparcos spacecraft, this star is around 240 light years away from the Sun.

It is advancing in general direction of the Earth with a radial velocity of −25 km/s.

[4] The stellar classification of the visible component is A3 IVs,[3] which matches an A-type subgiant star with narrow absorption lines.

[11] It is a suspected chemically peculiar star[12] that is about 64.3%±9.2% of the way through its main sequence lifetime.