The object is relatively far at a distance of 1,050 light years but is approaching the Solar System with a heliocentric radial velocity of −4.6 km/s.
HD 196775 has a general stellar classification of B3 V,[3] indicating that it is an ordinary B-type main-sequence star.
However, once source gives it a class of B4 Vn,[11] making it slightly cooler and having broad absorption lines due to rapid rotation.
[7] At present it has 7 times the mass of the Sun[6] and shines at 1507 L☉[8] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 18,100 K,[9] giving it a whitish blue hue.
HD 196775 is 36 million years old[6] and is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 145 km/s.