It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.59.

[2] This system is located approximately 246 light years distant from the Sun based on parallax,[1] and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +17.4 km/s.

[4] The visible component is an aging G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8III.

[3] Having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core, this star cooled and expanded off the main sequence.

It is radiating 97[4] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,900 K.[7]