With an apparent visual magnitude of 7.21,[2] this star is too faint to be in naked eye visibility.
It is located at a distance of 151 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +36.7 km/s.
[2] This object is a G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G0/2 V.[3] It is positioned 0.6 magnitudes above the main sequence, which may be explained by a high metallicity and an older age.
It is radiating 2.38 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,099 K.[4] As of 2019, two exoplanets have been confirmed to be orbiting the star.
[4] The first planet discovered, HD 50499 b, is a gas giant with mass of 1.7 times Jupiter.