Its story

HIP 87898 has a visual magnitude of about 6.79: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 87898: right ascension 17h 57m 17s, declination −71° 5′ 41″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 87898. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 87898, HD 162401, Gaia DR3 5809825114826686976. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.