Its story

HIP 40995 has a visual magnitude of about 6.89: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 40995: right ascension 8h 21m 57s, declination +14° 46′ 5″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 40995. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 40995, HD 70337, Gaia DR3 652142272244453504. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.