The system is located at a distance of 85.5 light years from the Sun, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 61 km/s.
[5] At that distance, the star has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.45,[2] which is bright enough to be faintly visible to the naked eye.
The motion of this system through space brought it within 10.3 light-years of the Sun some 408,600 years ago.
[7] The abundance of iron, a measure of the star's metallicity, is a scant 38% of solar.
[6] HD 60532 is radiating 9.3[7] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,095 K.[6] In September 2008, two Jupiter-like planets were found orbiting the star.