Its story

HIP 45740 has a visual magnitude of about 6.92: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 45740: right ascension 9h 19m 31s, declination +9° 47′ 25″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 45740. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 45740, HD 80339, Gaia DR3 590788492620646272. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.