Its story

HIP 24616 has a visual magnitude of about 8.20: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 24616: right ascension 5h 16m 48s, declination −5° 9′ 5″ (J2000), in the region of the Orion constellation (IAU figure Ori).

HIP 24616. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 24616, HD 34388, Gaia DR3 3210241148976640512. In the SkyKeepsake Orion (Ori) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.