Its story

HIP 85020 has a visual magnitude of about 6.03: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 85020: right ascension 17h 22m 39s, declination −37° 48′ 17″ (J2000), in the region of the Scorpius constellation (IAU figure Sco).

HIP 85020. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 85020, HD 157038, Gaia DR3 5972810563833563648. In the SkyKeepsake Scorpius (Sco) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.