Its apparent visual magnitude is 5.10,[2] meaning that in good conditions it is bright enough to be faintly visible to the naked eye.

Based upon an annual parallax shift of 12.30 mas which is taken during opposing points of the Earth's orbit of the sun (with compensation for its eccentricity),[1] the star is about 265 light years away.

[3] It is a red clump star,[7] which means it is generating energy through helium fusion at its core.

It is radiating 69[2] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,150 K.[7] The very similar brightness and potentially close stars of Gamma2, 3 have been examined by the Gaia space telescope/observatory.

Gamma2 is much more distant than the other two whose margins of error overlap when parallaxes are considered — they may thus be close enough to be in loose mutual orbital.