It has an apparent visual magnitude of +3.13,[2] which is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere and places it among the brighter members of this constellation.

The star is close enough that its distance can be determined directly using the parallax technique, which gives a value of approximately 470 light-years (140 parsecs) from the Sun.

Although a putative solitary star, it has a candidate proper motion companion at an angular separation of 0.73 arcseconds along a position angle of 135°.

This is a loose grouping of stars that share a common motion through space and therefore formed in the same molecular cloud.

The LCC group has an estimated age of 16–20 million years and is centered on a mean distance of 380 light-years (120 parsecs) from Earth.