It has an apparent visual magnitude of +4.35[2] and is around 500 light years from the Sun.

This is an A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A0 V.[3] It has a magnitude 11.4 visual companion located at an angular separation of 20 arc seconds along a position angle of 290°, as of 1910.

[8] Iota Piscis Austrini is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 29.7 km/s relative to the Sun.

Its projected Galactic orbit carries it between 18,400 and 24,300 light years from the center of the Galaxy.

Consequently, the Chinese name for ι Piscis Austrini itself is 天錢三 (Tiān Qián sān, English: the Third Star of Celestial Money.