Its story

HIP 45049 has a visual magnitude of about 8.00: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 45049: right ascension 9h 10m 32s, declination +29° 4′ 12″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 45049. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 45049, HD 78713, Gaia DR3 698505997527310976. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.