Its story

HIP 40907 has a visual magnitude of about 7.36: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 40907: right ascension 8h 20m 53s, declination −4° 51′ 58″ (J2000), in the region of the Canis Minor constellation (IAU figure CMi).

HIP 40907. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 40907, HD 70255, Gaia DR3 3065964676288780288. In the SkyKeepsake Canis Minor (CMi) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.