The cluster lies 2/3° northwest from the spiral galaxy NGC 6946.

The open cluster is located two degrees southwest of Eta Cephei and 2/3° northwest from the spiral galaxy NGC 6946, which has visual magnitude 8.7.

[5] With the use of photometric studies, the age of the cluster was estimated to be between 1,0 and 1,3 billion years!, using as sample 638 stars within the field.

[7] Some of its members are variable stars: a study in 1998 led to the discovery of six variable stars among the red giants of the cluster, with two of which are Algol type and V466 Cephei appears to be a W Ursae Majoris type.

A further study in 2004 identified further 10 variables near the cluster, five of which were W Ursae Majoris type and one RR Lyrae.