With an apparent magnitude of 11.546, it is too faint to be seen by the naked eye but can be observed using a telescope with an aperture of 51 mm (2.0 in) or larger.

[10] It is located at a distance of approximately 48.4 light-years (14.8 pc) according to Gaia EDR3 parallax measurements, and is receding from the Sun at a heliocentric radial velocity of +71.0 km/s.

It is a little less than two-thirds the mass of the Sun and just 1.4% the radius, that is 1.5 times the size of Earth or 9,670 km (6,010 mi).

Silicon lines were discovered in 1984 from spectra obtained by the International Ultraviolet Explorer.

[13] Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen are absent in the spectra, consistent with theories of element diffusion.