It has a yellow hue and an apparent visual magnitude of 9.36,[2] which makes it too faint to be seen with the naked eye – it is visible only with telescope or powerful binoculars.
Parallax measurements provide a distance estimate of 148 light years from the Sun, and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 62 km/s.
[1] The star is estimated to have come as close as 111.5 light-years some 409 million years ago.
That is, it is nearing the end of its main sequence lifetimes and is becoming a subgiant star.
[4] In 2004, the discovery of a hot Jupiter planet orbiting close to the star was announced.