It is visible to the naked eye as a faint star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.29.
[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.70 mas as seen from the Earth,[1] it is 420 light years from the Sun.
The visible component is a B-type star with an estimated 3.3[7] times the mass of the Sun.
Lesh (1968) gave a stellar classification of B7 IVnn,[4] which would indicate this is a somewhat evolved subgiant star.
Houk and Smith-Moore (1978) listed it as B7/8 V,[3] suggesting this is instead a B-type main sequence star that has not yet consumed all the hydrogen at its core.