It has a magnitude of about 12 and cannot be seen with the naked eye but is visible through a small telescope.
[3][7] XO-5 has a suspected red dwarf companion with a temperature 3500+250−150 K, on a wide orbit.
The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by the Czech Republic, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU.
[10][11] The exoplanet XO-5b was discovered by the XO Telescope using the transit method in 2008.
[3] A search for transit timing variations caused by additional planets was negative.