It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.29.
[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 3.83 mas,[1] it is estimated to lie roughly 850 light years from the Sun.
[3] It is a member of the Orion OB1 association (Ori OB1),[8] and it has been identified as a high-velocity runaway star.
[9] This is a massive, B-type main-sequence star with a corrected stellar classification of B0.5 V. It is an estimated eight[5] million years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 30 km/s.
It is radiating 15,488 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 30,400 K.[2]