Its story

HIP 84668 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 84668: right ascension 17h 18m 33s, declination −39° 32′ 30″ (J2000), in the region of the Scorpius constellation (IAU figure Sco).

HIP 84668. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 84668, HD 156290, Gaia DR3 5972424914463376256. In the SkyKeepsake Scorpius (Sco) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.