[11] Sometimes, this star is called by the name Dorsum,[12] meaning the back (of the goat) in Latin.

[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 20.11 mas as seen from the Earth,[1] the star is about 162 light years from the Sun.

[4] This is an ordinary A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A1 V.[3] Radial velocity variations indicate it may be a binary star system,[13] but when the system was examined in the infrared, no companion was detected.

It is 152 million years old and is spinning fairly rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 104 km/s.

[15] Thus the star can be viewed the whole night, crossing the sky, in early August (in the current epoch).