Its story

HIP 24942 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 24942: right ascension 5h 20m 36s, declination +15° 3′ 33″ (J2000), in the region of the Orion constellation (IAU figure Ori).

HIP 24942. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 24942, HD 34792, Gaia DR3 3390541780118803456. In the SkyKeepsake Orion (Ori) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.