Its story

HIP 44312 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 44312: right ascension 9h 1m 27s, declination +19° 2′ 14″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 44312. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 44312, HD 77174, Gaia DR3 612417192009561728. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.