HD 30669 is a yellowish-orange hued star located in the southern constellation Caelum, the chisel. It has an apparent magnitude of 9.11, making it readily visible in small telescopes but not to the naked eye. The object is relatively close at a distance of 189 light-years, based on parallax measurements from Gaia DR3. Its distance from the Solar System is rapidly increasing, having a heliocentric radial velocity of .
Characteristics HD 30669 has a stellar classification of G8/K0 V — a main sequence star with the characteristics of a star with a class of G8 or K0. It has alternatively been given a class of G9 V. It has 92% the mass of the Sun and 91% its radius. The object radiates 71% the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of from its photosphere. Like most planetary hosts, HD 30669 is metal enriched, having a metallicity 35% above solar levels. The star is extremely chromopsherically inactive and is estimated to be billion years old.
Planetary system In 2015, C. Motou and colleagues discovered a long period exoplanet orbiting the star during a HARPS survey. It has nearly half the mass of Jupiter and it takes over years to revolve HD 30669 in a slightly eccentric orbit.
A candidate second planet was identified in a 2026 study using HARPS-N. This would be a super-Neptune on an eccentric orbit closer to the star, with a period of 150 days. Despite the eccentric orbits of both planets, dynamical simulations show that the two-planet system is stable.
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