Located around 455 light-years distant,[1] it shines with a luminosity approximately 38 times that of the Sun and has an effective temperature of 7,753 K.[6] It is a suspected variable star[2] and has a fairly rapid rotation rate, showing a projected rotational velocity of 134 km/s.

[7] Eggen (1985) suggested it is a probable member of the Hyades Supercluster.

[8] Samuel Molyneux named this star Telescopica in Auriga.

[9] Flamsteed catalogued it as 35 Camelopardalis Heveliana, which is the name James Bradley continued to use, although it is within the borders of the modern constellation Auriga.

[12] It has been given a spectral type of kA5mA7IV,[13] although other catalogues have given more normal classifications such as A7 V or A7 III.