It is an extremely rare member of the WO oxygen sequence, at WO2 the hottest known in the LMC.

The star was first observed in a 2013 survey of the Magellanic Clouds using the 1m Swope telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.

Digital subtraction of the separate images was used to highlight stars with particularly strong emission at one or both of the indicative spectral lines.

[1] The first survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud in October 2013 identified eight previously unknown candidate objects, of which five were later confirmed to be Wolf Rayet stars.

LMC 195-1 is located in the rich LH-41 (NGC 1910) stellar association that contains the luminous blue variable S Doradus as well as another WO star LH 41-1042.