Its story

HIP 50280 has a visual magnitude of about 7.85: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 50280: right ascension 10h 15m 58s, declination +50° 19′ 47″ (J2000), in the region of the Ursa Major constellation (IAU figure UMa).

HIP 50280. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 50280, HD 88817, Gaia DR3 847844759188342400. In the SkyKeepsake Ursa Major (UMa) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.