The apparent visual magnitude is 3.259, making the star visible to the naked eye at night from the southern hemisphere.

Parallax measurements yield an estimated distance of 170 light-years (52 parsecs) from the Earth.

The stellar classification of this star is B9 IV:HgMn,[3] although the ':' indicates an uncertain spectral value.

The luminosity class of IV indicates that this is a subgiant that has exhausted the hydrogen at its core and it is in the process of evolving into a giant star.

[4] X-ray emission has been detected coming from a location at an angular separation of 0.93 arcseconds from this star.