Its story

HIP 81873 has a visual magnitude of about 6.02: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 81873: right ascension 16h 43m 22s, declination −67° 25′ 57″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 81873. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 81873, HD 150026, Gaia DR3 5815345694003463424. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.