56 Sagittarii is a single star in the southern constellation of Sagittarius. It has the Bayer designation f Sagittarii, while 56 Sagittarii is the Flamsteed designation. This object is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.87. It is located approximately 208 light years away from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +22 km/s.