Its story

HIP 90459 has a visual magnitude of about 6.85: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 90459: right ascension 18h 27m 31s, declination −15° 22′ 25″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 90459. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 90459, HD 169915, Gaia DR3 4103929491531746816. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.