HD 128294 is a solitary, bluish-white hued star located in the southern circumpolar constellation Apus.
It has an apparent magnitude of 6.34,[2] placing it near the limit for naked eye visibility, even under ideal conditions.
[4] HD 128294 has a stellar classification of B9 III,[3] indicating that it is an evolved blue giant.
At the age of 286 million years,[7] the object has completed 71.9% of its main sequence lifetime according to Gaia DR3 models.
[5] It radiates 145 times the luminosity of the Sun[1] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 10,336 K.[5] According to astrophysical parameters based on the Gaia passband, HD 128294 has an iron abundance 81.3% that of the Sun's ([Fe/H) = −0.09),[6] making it slightly metal deficient.