Its story

HIP 50642 has a visual magnitude of about 8.11: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 50642: right ascension 10h 20m 35s, declination +29° 34′ 18″ (J2000), in the region of the Leo Minor constellation (IAU figure LMi).

HIP 50642. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 50642, Gaia DR3 741705603223170048. In the SkyKeepsake Leo Minor (LMi) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.