Its story

HIP 78476 has a visual magnitude of about 6.23: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 78476: right ascension 16h 1m 11s, declination −63° 46′ 36″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 78476. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 78476, HD 142941, Gaia DR3 5823134325151372032. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.