It has been given the proper name Násti, which means star in the Northern Sami language.
[8][9] HD 68988 is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 8.20.
[2] The star is located at a distance of 199 light years from the Sun based on parallax.
It is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −69 km/s and is predicted to come as close as 78 light-years in 617,000 years.
[10] The star has 16% more mass than the Sun and an 8% greater radius with a high metallicity; what astronomers term the abundance of heavier elements.