It is readily visible in binoculars or a small telescope, but is considered too dim to be seen with the naked eye at an apparent visual magnitude of 6.76.

[2] The distance to this object is 160 light years based on parallax,[1] and it is slowly drifting further away at the rate of about 1 km/s.

[5] It has been proposed as a member of the Beta Pictoris moving group[11] or the Tucana-Horologium association of co-moving stars; there is some ambiguity as to its true membership.

[12] This object has a stellar classification of F4IV,[3] suggesting it is an aging subgiant star that has exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core.

The reason for the asymmetry is thought to be either the gravitational pull of a passing star (HIP 12545), an exoplanet, or interaction with the local interstellar medium.