HR 5955 is a single[6] star in the far southern constellation of Apus. It is 28.5 minutes earlier than and about 5 deg. north of the yellow giant star Gamma Apodis, which is the second brightest star in the constellation of Apus. This object has an orange hue and is visible to the naked eye as a dim point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.70.[6] It is located at a distance of approximately 283 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 49 km/s.[6] At that distance, the visual brightness of this star is diminished by an extinction of 0.174 due to interstellar dust.[4] The star has an absolute magnitude of 0.95.[2]

This is an aging giant star on the horizontal branch[4] with a stellar classification of K1.5III CN1.[3] This indicates it has exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core and is currently fusing helium. The suffix notation means there is an anomalous overabundance of cyanogen in the spectrum. It has expanded to 10.8[1] times the radius of the Sun and nearly double the Sun's mass.[4] The star is radiating 49 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,655 K.[1]

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