Its story

HIP 45942 has a visual magnitude of about 7.76: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 45942: right ascension 9h 22m 8s, declination +5° 34′ 43″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 45942. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 45942, HD 80823, Gaia DR3 585579964305553280. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.