Its story

HIP 80342 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 80342: right ascension 16h 24m 4s, declination −70° 8′ 44″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 80342. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 80342, HD 146893, Gaia DR3 5807301014091523712. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.