Its story

HIP 40982 has a visual magnitude of about 7.58: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 40982: right ascension 8h 21m 48s, declination +14° 19′ 10″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 40982. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 40982, HD 70319, Gaia DR3 652112413632418688. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.