Its story

HIP 85477 has a visual magnitude of about 6.81: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 85477: right ascension 17h 28m 5s, declination −64° 57′ 4″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 85477. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 85477, HD 157461, Gaia DR3 5813912514946515456. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.