Parallax measurements made by Gaia spacecraft put the star at a distance of 394 light-years (121 parsecs) away.
Dopere is an expansive historical area in the north of Senegal where Belel was located.
[6][7] HD 181342 is a K-type red giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III.
[3] It was formerly an A-type main-sequence star,[2] but at an age of 1.56 billion years it has swelled up to a size of 4.55 solar radii.
[2] The planet, HD 181342 b, orbits at a distance of 1.59 astronomical units (au), every 564 days (almost 2 years).