With an apparent visual magnitude of +8.58[4] it is not visible to the naked eye, but can be viewed with a good pair of binoculars.
The star is located at a distance of 307 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of ~22 km/s.
[4] This is a G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G2V,[3] which means it is generating energy through core hydrogen fusion.
It is metal-rich, having nearly double the abundance of iron in its atmosphere compared to the Sun.
On Friday, February 9, 2007, a 3.32 years period jovian planet was found by using the wobble method by O'Toole and colleagues in Australia.