It has the Bayer designation i Carinae, while HD 79447 is the identifier from the Henry Draper catalogue.
This star has a blue-white hue and is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +3.96.
[2] It is located at a distance of approximately 540 light years from the Sun based on parallax,[1] and has an absolute magnitude of −2.14.
[3] A surface magnetic field has been detected with a strength on the order of 1 kG.
It is radiating over two thousand[2] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 18,900 K.[3]