The two stars are located approximately 35.1 light-years (10.8 pc) distant based on Gaia EDR3 parallax measurements, and approaching the Solar System at heliocentric radial velocities of −18.962 km/s and −18.36 km/s, respectively.

The brighter primary star, HD 147379A, has an apparent magnitude of 8.9,[2] too faint to be seen by the naked eye from Earth but visible using binoculars.

[17] HD 147379A (HIP 79755) is a red dwarf with a spectral type of M0.0V, about 58% the mass of the Sun, 57% the radius, and an age of 5.1+3.2−2.4 billion years.

[2] One of the teams that discovered HD 147379 b proposed another candidate planet, this one with a minimum mass of 27 ME and a 500-day period, orbiting at a distance of about 1 AU.

[21] It too has a high metallicity of [M/H]=0.20±0.10 dex, translating to a roughly 60% excess in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium compared to the Sun.