Its story

HIP 14940 has a visual magnitude of about 6.60: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 14940: right ascension 3h 12m 38s, declination −31° 7′ 45″ (J2000), in the region of the Eridanus constellation (IAU figure Eri).

HIP 14940. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 14940, HD 20080, Gaia DR3 5057787748725662592. In the SkyKeepsake Eridanus (Eri) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.