Its story

HIP 40581 has a visual magnitude of about 6.70: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 40581: right ascension 8h 17m 10s, declination −3° 21′ 50″ (J2000), in the region of the Canis Minor constellation (IAU figure CMi).

HIP 40581. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 40581, HD 69502, Gaia DR3 3069467926493333632. In the SkyKeepsake Canis Minor (CMi) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.