Alpha Persei (Alpha Per, α Persei, α Per) is the brightest star in Perseus, visual magnitude 1.8, Mirphak lies in the midst of a cluster of stars named the Alpha Persei Cluster - Melotte 20 , distance 510 light-years (160 parsecs)

Mirphak is a white supergiant star primary component of a multiple-star system

The iron abundance of Mirphak is +0.14 (138.0% of the Sun) It is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 30.1 km/s relative to the Sun and is part of the Alpha Perseus moving group