HR 1733 appears southward and somewhat westward of brilliantCapella in the skies of Earth, though it shines with a much fainter light, and is invisible to the naked eye. In fact, HR 1733 and Capella have very similar luminosities (each is more than a 130 times more luminous than the Sun), but at a distance of nearly eight hundred light years, HR 1733 is nearly twenty times farther from the Solar System than its brighter neighbour in the sky.