Its story

HIP 82079 has a visual magnitude of about 6.86: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 82079: right ascension 16h 45m 57s, declination −61° 39′ 49″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 82079. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 82079, HD 150596, Gaia DR3 5818473353593232768. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.