Its story

HIP 48500 has a visual magnitude of about 8.28: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 48500: right ascension 9h 53m 27s, declination +45° 40′ 14″ (J2000), in the region of the Leo Minor constellation (IAU figure LMi).

HIP 48500. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 48500, HD 85502, Gaia DR3 820717917545173248. In the SkyKeepsake Leo Minor (LMi) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.