[2] With an annual parallax shift of 14.79 mas,[1] it is located around 221 light years from the Sun.

At that distance, the apparent visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an interstellar extinction factor of 0.10[12] due to intervening dust.

Just 17 arc minutes to the east of Xi1 Centauri lies the galaxy NGC 4945.

[13] This is an A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A0 V.[3] It is about 125[6] million years old with a relatively high rate of spin, having a projected rotational velocity of 185 km/s.

It is radiating 43[8] times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 10,462 K.[6]