 Based on parallax measurements from the Hipparcos astrometry satellite, this star is located about from the Earth.It has an apparent visual magnitude of 2.84 and a stellar classification of G5 II.The mass of this star is 3.5 times the mass of the Sun and it is about 240 million years old, which is sufficient time for a star this massive to consume the hydrogen at its core and evolve away from the main sequence, becoming a G-type bright giant.