Its story

HIP 45406 has a visual magnitude of about 7.90: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 45406: right ascension 9h 15m 9s, declination +23° 22′ 29″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 45406. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 45406, HD 79498, Gaia DR3 686996756484129664. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.