 The distance to this star, as determined using an annual parallax shift of 13.47 mas as seen from the Earth, is around 242 light years.It is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +39 km/s, having come to within some 805,000 years ago.This is an evolved K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K3 III, having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core then cooled and expanded off the main sequence.