Its story

HIP 77173 has a visual magnitude of about 6.45: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 77173: right ascension 15h 45m 28s, declination −65° 44′ 59″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 77173. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 77173, HD 140018, Gaia DR3 5825459964044154240. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.