Its story

HIP 44948 has a visual magnitude of about 8.04: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 44948: right ascension 9h 9m 22s, declination +25° 50′ 7″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 44948. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 44948, HD 78514, Gaia DR3 688822632981346176. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.