With an apparent visual magnitude of 8.97,[2] it is too dim to be viewed with the naked eye, but can be seen with powerful binoculars or a small telescope.
Parallax measurements provide a distance estimate of approximately 356 light years from the Sun, but it is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −63 km/s.
[8][9] This object is an ordinary F-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of F8 V.[2] It is around three[3] to 4.5 billion years old and may be evolving onto the subgiant branch.
[6] It is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 4 km/s[4] and has low chromospheric activity.
It is radiating 2.6 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,081 K.[1] In 2007, the N2K Consortium used the radial velocity technique to discover a Jupiter-like planet orbiting at a distance of 0.57 AU from the star with a period of 141.6 days.