 The system is visible to the naked eye as a faint, blue-white hued point of light with a peak apparent visual magnitude of 4.80.It is approaching the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −17 km/s.The inner pair of this system form a well-studied semidetached binary with the orbital plane oriented near the line of sight to the Earth, making it an Algol-type eclipsing binary.