Its story

HIP 80638 has a visual magnitude of about 7.20: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 80638: right ascension 16h 27m 53s, declination −69° 51′ 41″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 80638. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 80638, HD 147500, Gaia DR3 5808810123854224384. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.