The system is located at a distance of 64 light years from the Sun based on parallax measurements,[3] and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of −10.7 km/s.

[2] It is too faint to be viewed with the naked eye, but with good binoculars or small telescope it should be easy to spot.

[9] The spectrum of HD 192263 matches a K-type main-sequence star, an orange dwarf, with a stellar classification of K1/2 V[4] This is a BY Draconis variable, with variations in luminosity being caused by star spots on a rotating stellar atmosphere.

Phoenicia was an ancient thalassocratic civilisation of the Mediterranean that originated from the area of modern-day Lebanon.

[citation needed] On 28 September 1999, an exoplanet around HD 192263 was found by the Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search team using the CORALIE spectrograph on the 1.2m Euler Swiss Telescope at La Silla Observatory,[13] discovered independently by Vogt et al.[14] The exoplanet is named Beirut after the capital and largest city of Lebanon.