Its story

HIP 46255 has a visual magnitude of about 8.12: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 46255: right ascension 9h 25m 48s, declination +26° 12′ 17″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 46255. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 46255, HD 81359, Gaia DR3 693810945437000832. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.