Its story

HIP 26740 has a visual magnitude of about 6.50: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 26740: right ascension 5h 40m 55s, declination −11° 12′ 1″ (J2000), in the region of the Lepus constellation (IAU figure Lep).

HIP 26740. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 26740, HD 37828, Gaia DR3 3010244175773318144. In the SkyKeepsake Lepus (Lep) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.