Its story

HIP 86770 has a visual magnitude of about 6.73: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 86770: right ascension 17h 43m 50s, declination −67° 24′ 11″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 86770. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 86770, HD 160197, Gaia DR3 5812348906331516416. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.