Its story

HIP 55744 has a visual magnitude of about 8.10: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 55744: right ascension 11h 25m 17s, declination +49° 22′ 31″ (J2000), in the region of the Ursa Major constellation (IAU figure UMa).

HIP 55744. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 55744, HD 99177, Gaia DR3 789951829856324736. In the SkyKeepsake Ursa Major (UMa) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.