It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 4.71.

[2] This system lies approximately 254 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +19.4 km/s.

It is an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable; its apparent magnitude varies from 4.70 down to 4.75 with a period of 12.5 days.

[3] A rotationally-modulated magnetic field has been measured, varying from −72±9 G to 57±9 G. It has an estimated rotation period of 5.98±0.06 d, although this is in need of further confirmation.

[11] The proper motion companion[12] is a magnitude 12.8 star at an angular separation of 6.7″.