 The star lies at a distance of around 770 light years from the Sun, based on parallax, and is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −18 km/s.This is a sharp-lined supergiant star with a stellar classification of F5Ib-II.It is 85 million years old with 5.3 times the mass of the Sun and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 9.5 km/s.