 Based upon an annual parallax shift of 14.25 mas as measured from Earth, it is located around 229 light years from the Sun.At that distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction factor of due to interstellar dust.With an age of 350 million years, this is an A-type star of stellar classification A2 IIIs, where the luminosity class of III typically indicates an evolved giant star and the 's' means the spectrum displays sharp absorption lines.