Its story

HIP 45879 has a visual magnitude of about 6.56: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 45879: right ascension 9h 21m 18s, declination +13° 6′ 40″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 45879. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 45879, HD 80654, Gaia DR3 594232609715397120. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.