Its story

HIP 9840 has a visual magnitude of about 8.44: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 9840: right ascension 2h 6m 36s, declination +27° 50′ 2″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum constellation (IAU figure Tri).

HIP 9840. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 9840, HD 12861, Gaia DR3 107380715045929344. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum (Tri) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.