Its story

HIP 88905 has a visual magnitude of about 6.62: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 88905: right ascension 18h 8m 54s, declination −25° 28′ 23″ (J2000), in the region of the Sagittarius constellation (IAU figure Sgr).

HIP 88905. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 88905, HD 165814, Gaia DR3 4064914901966841728. In the SkyKeepsake Sagittarius (Sgr) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.