Its story

HIP 88878 has a visual magnitude of about 6.48: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 88878: right ascension 18h 8m 39s, declination −2° 54′ 27″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 88878. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 88878, HD 165965, Gaia DR3 4177793102043402368. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.