Its story

HIP 45488 has a visual magnitude of about 8.19: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 45488: right ascension 9h 16m 8s, declination +14° 7′ 29″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 45488. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 45488, HD 79726, Gaia DR3 606422203642505600. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.