With an apparent visual magnitude of +7.73[2] it is too dim to be visible to the naked eye but can be viewed with a small telescope.
The star is located at a distance of 112 light years from the Sun based on parallax.
[4] The age of the star is not precisely known; the ELODIE spectrograph suggested 0.8 Gyr and found it to have a young dust disk.
[9] Later measurements by modelling chromosperic activity suggested an age of 4.18 Gyr.
[citation needed] On November 24, 2005, a superjovian planet was announced by Sozzetti et al.[9] It was discovered using the radial velocity method.