Its story

HIP 26690 has a visual magnitude of about 8.32: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 26690: right ascension 5h 40m 18s, declination +15° 21′ 1″ (J2000), in the region of the Orion constellation (IAU figure Ori).

HIP 26690. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 26690, Gaia DR3 3395863205942142976. In the SkyKeepsake Orion (Ori) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.