Its story

HIP 50942 has a visual magnitude of about 6.38: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 50942: right ascension 10h 24m 14s, declination −69° 55′ 4″ (J2000), in the region of the Chamaeleon constellation (IAU figure Cha).

HIP 50942. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 50942, HD 90478, Gaia DR3 5232356179084143488. In the SkyKeepsake Chamaeleon (Cha) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.