Located 397 light years away based on parallax measurements,[1] it is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of −7.02 km/s.
[6] HD 32518 has a stellar classification of K1 III,[4] indicating that it is an orange giant star that has evolved away from the main sequence.
[8] It shines at 46.4 times the luminosity of the Sun[8] from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,731 K,[3] giving it a yellowish orange glow.
HD 32518 is older than the Sun with an age of 6.4 billion years[8] and spins slowly with a projected rotational velocity of 1.2 km/s−1.
[3] In August 2009, a group of astrometers discovered a super-jovian exoplanet orbiting the giant star using doppler spectroscopy.