Its story

HIP 85668 has a visual magnitude of about 6.97: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 85668: right ascension 17h 30m 25s, declination −66° 52′ 12″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 85668. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 85668, HD 157772, Gaia DR3 5813137423664272384. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.