Its story

HIP 85540 has a visual magnitude of about 6.93: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 85540: right ascension 17h 28m 51s, declination −70° 38′ 2″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 85540. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 85540, HD 157342, Gaia DR3 5810787874696641280. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.