Its story

HIP 35980 has a visual magnitude of about 7.86: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 35980: right ascension 7h 24m 54s, declination +1° 37′ 31″ (J2000), in the region of the Canis Minor constellation (IAU figure CMi).

HIP 35980. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 35980, HD 58250, Gaia DR3 3135660484993080320. In the SkyKeepsake Canis Minor (CMi) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.