64 Aurigae is a single^[8] star located 312^[2] light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga.^[7] It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star with an apparent magnitude of 5.87.^[1] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −10, and may come to within 167 light-years in around 5.3 million years.^[1] It is a member of the Sirius supercluster.^[9]

This object is an ordinary A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of 5 Vn,^[4] where the 'n' notation is used to indicate "nebulous" lines in the spectrum caused by rapid rotation. It is 291^[6] million years old with a projected rotational velocity of 212 km/s.^[3] The star has 1.9 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 32 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 7,870 K.^[5]

It was also known to be part of a much bigger constellation named Telescopium Herschelii before it was unrecognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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