It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.14.

[2] The distance to this star is approximately 168 light years, as determined by parallax, and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 5 km/s.

[3] Having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core, it has cooled and expanded; at present it has 12.3 times the girth of the Sun.

It is radiating about 68 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about 4,739 K.[7] It is probably on the red giant branch, which indicates it is generating energy through hydrogen fusion in a shell outside an inert helium core.

[7] However, there is a 41% chance that it is a red clump giant on the horizontal branch,[2] which would mean it was somewhat older and less massive.