HD 80194 (HR 3695) is a solitary star in the southern circumpolar constellation Chamaeleon. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.12,^[3] allowing it to be faintly seen with the naked eye. Parallax measurements place the object at a distance of 351 light years^[2] and is currently receding with a poorly constrained radial velocity of 0.9 km/s.^[7]

HD 80194 has a stellar classification of K1 III,^[5] indicating that it is a red giant that has exhausted its core hydrogen. It is thought to be a red clump star, on the cool end of the horizontal branch and fusing helium in its core.^[4] It has 115% the mass of the Sun^[8] but has expanded to 9.82 times its girth.^[9] It shines at 47 times the luminosity of the Sun^[10] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,798 K,^[11] giving it an orange glow. HD 80194 has an iron abundance 81% that of the Sun^[12] and spins slowly with a projected rotational velocity lower than 1 km/s.^[13]

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