Kepler-68 is a Sun-like main sequence star located 471 light-years (144 parsecs) away in the constellation Cygnus.
[5] High resolution imaging observations of Kepler-68 carried out with the lucky imaging instrument AstraLux on the 2.2m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory detected a wide companion candidate approximately 11 arcseconds away.
[6] Eleven arcseconds at the distance of Kepler-68 leads to a sky projected separation of approximately 1600 Astronomical units.
[5][8] There is an additional signal present in the radial velocity measurements indicating another body in the system at a period of greater than 10 years.
The mass of this object was initially unknown and it could be either another planet or a stellar companion.