Its story

HIP 93972 has a visual magnitude of about 6.57: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 93972: right ascension 19h 8m 1s, declination −7° 50′ 53″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 93972. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 93972, HD 178218, Gaia DR3 4204586757334485504. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.