Its story

HIP 90946 has a visual magnitude of about 6.75: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 90946: right ascension 18h 33m 7s, declination −5° 9′ 45″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 90946. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 90946, HD 171109, Gaia DR3 4256447830270086272. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.