Its story

HIP 45252 has a visual magnitude of about 7.29: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 45252: right ascension 9h 13m 23s, declination +5° 48′ 56″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 45252. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 45252, HD 79283, Gaia DR3 580568497680564864. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.