Gamma² Normae is a yellow giant with a visual magnitude of 4.0, making it the brightest star of the constellation (which has no alpha or beta). It's 125 light years away.

Gamma² forms an optical double with gamma¹, which is fainter (5.0) and much farther away, 1500 light years.

Gamma is half way between the Scorpion's tail and alpha Centauri, as well as 22º (a little over three fields) due south of Antares: binoculars.

To the northeast of gamma, in the same field of view, is epsilon Normae, a binary for small telescopes or large binoculars: 4.5, 7.5 with a position angle of 325º and a separation of 23".