Its story

HIP 88740 has a visual magnitude of about 6.91: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 88740: right ascension 18h 6m 56s, declination −3° 13′ 60″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 88740. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 88740, HD 165610, Gaia DR3 4177687170968321152. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.