It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.28,[13] which is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star.

Based upon parallax measurements, it is approximately 387 light years from the Sun.

Stellar evolution models from Zorec and Royer (2012) place it near the main sequence turnoff, having completed 90.7% of its time on the main sequence.

The star is estimated to be 347 million years old[6] and is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 214 km/s.

[7] Eta Volantis is radiating 84[8] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 9,789 K.[9] Eta Volantis has two 12th magnitude optical companions at angular separations of 26.8 and 48.1 arcseconds.