Its story
HIP 38946 has a visual magnitude of about 6.94: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.
Equatorial coordinates for HIP 38946: right ascension 7h 58m 6s, declination +5° 0′ 41″ (J2000), in the region of the Canis Minor constellation (IAU figure CMi).
HIP 38946. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 38946, HD 65258, Gaia DR3 3095529307011407360. In the SkyKeepsake Canis Minor (CMi) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFactsHIP 38946
- Right ascension
- 7h 58m 06s
- Declination
- +5° 00′ 41″
- Magnitude
- 6.94
- Distance
- ≈ 653 ly
Data: gaia-dr3