Its story

HIP 45046 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 45046: right ascension 9h 10m 30s, declination +21° 40′ 17″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 45046. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 45046, HD 78749, Gaia DR3 637243717888221696. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.