With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.22,[2] it is visible to the naked eye on a dark night.
Based upon an annual parallax shift of 6.70 mas as seen from Earth,[1] this star is located around 490 light-years from the Sun.
At that distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.06 due to interstellar dust.
[6] At the age of about 234[6] million years, is an evolved, G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8 III.
It is radiating 310[3] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,994 K.[7]