[2] According to the Bortle scale, this means it can be viewed from suburban skies at night.

Based upon an annual parallax shift of 37.41 mas,[1] Iota Crateris is located 87 light years from the Sun.

This is an astrometric binary system with an estimated orbital period of roughly 79,000 years.

[10] The primary, component A, is an F-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of F6.5 V,[3] which is generating energy through the thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen in its core region.

[8] As of 2014, this magnitude 11.0 star had an angular separation of 1.10 arc seconds along a position angle of 248°.