Its story

HIP 40989 has a visual magnitude of about 8.16: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 40989: right ascension 8h 21m 54s, declination +17° 36′ 3″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 40989. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 40989, HD 70318, Gaia DR3 656314884512105984. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.