It is faintly visible to the naked eye, with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.68.
[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 15.51 mas as seen from Earth,[1] this star is located around 210 light years from the Sun.
This is a chemically peculiar[7] A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A8 Vas.
[3] At an age of about 301[6] million years, Sigma1 Cancri is around 67% of the way through its main sequence lifespan.
[7] The star has 1.7[6] times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 18[7] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,116 K.[6] It has a magnitude 13.3 visual companion at an angular separation of 5.2 arc seconds along a position angle of 276°, as of 2011.