Its story

HIP 45897 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 45897: right ascension 9h 21m 27s, declination +25° 21′ 32″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).

HIP 45897. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 45897, HD 80581, Gaia DR3 693640070162545664. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.