It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.23.

[10] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 5.3209 mas as seen from the Earth,[2] the system is located roughly 610 light-years from the Sun.

This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary[3] star system with an orbital period of 6.39 days and an eccentricity of 0.13.

[7] The primary, component A, has a stellar classification of B8 IIIp,[4] suggesting it is a B-type giant star.

[3] It is classified as an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum type variable star and its brightness varies from magnitude +5.22 to +5.27 with a period of five days.