Its story

HIP 24953 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 24953: right ascension 5h 20m 40s, declination −10° 31′ 39″ (J2000), in the region of the Lepus constellation (IAU figure Lep).

HIP 24953. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 24953, HD 34938, Gaia DR3 3014042743631517696. In the SkyKeepsake Lepus (Lep) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.