Its story

HIP 87448 has a visual magnitude of about 6.25: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 87448: right ascension 17h 52m 5s, declination +1° 6′ 40″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 87448. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 87448, HD 162652, Gaia DR3 4372627009160659968. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.