υ Orionis's parallax has been measured at 1.14 ±0.25, yielding a distance of approximately 3158 light years from Earth. A 1979 review of photometry of O and B stars found it to be around 1666 light-years distant, with a radius 7.2 times and luminosity 60,000 times that of the Sun, and surface temperature of 34347 K. and a mass 20 times that of the Sun. It is one of the most massive stars of the Orion OB1c Association (in Orion's Sword).