[7] The apparent visual magnitude of this star is 7.68,[2] which is too dim to be visible to the naked eye.
It is located at a distance of 103 light years from the Sun based on parallax, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −23 km/s.
It is an older, thick disk[9] star with an age of around 11 billion years, and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 3.6 km/s.
It is radiating 77–84% of the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,763 K. As of 2011, three extrasolar planets have been found to orbit the star.
[13] Solving this, a three-planet solution was announced in 2005:[14] this contained a second planet (HD 37124 c) orbiting at the outer edge of the habitable zone with an insolation similar to that of Mars, and a third planet, (HD 37124 d).