It can be viewed with a small telescope but is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 8.23.
[2] Based on parallax measurements, the object is located at a distance of approximately 306 light years from the Sun.
"Axólotl" means "water animal" in the native Nahuatl language and an axolotl is also a species of salamander endemic to the valley of Mexico.
[6] The star is metal rich, showing a higher abundance of elements other than hydrogen and helium when compared to the Sun.
The star is radiating 3.78 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,971 K.[1] In 2006, an extrasolar planet was discovered orbiting HD 224693 by the Keck telescope using radial velocity measurements.