[9] With an apparent visual magnitude of 8.64,[2] it is too faint to be visible to the naked eye.
Gliese 146 is located at a distance of 44.4 light years based on parallax measurements, and is drifting further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of +21 km/s.
[1] This is an ordinary K-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of K6.5V.
[10] Its velocity relative to the Sun is 38.1 km/second, and its galactic orbit ranges between 20,800 and 25,400 light years from the center of the Galaxy, placing it within a thin disk.
[7] In 2021, a Sub-Neptune planet HD 22496b was discovered utilizing a Doppler spectroscopy method.