Its story

HIP 38255 has a visual magnitude of about 8.27: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 38255: right ascension 7h 50m 11s, declination −2° 41′ 31″ (J2000), in the region of the Canis Minor constellation (IAU figure CMi).

HIP 38255. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 38255, Gaia DR3 3081742839949330432. In the SkyKeepsake Canis Minor (CMi) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.