Its story

HIP 8640 has a visual magnitude of about 7.33: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 8640: right ascension 1h 51m 26s, declination +35° 27′ 21″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum constellation (IAU figure Tri).

HIP 8640. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 8640, HD 11269, Gaia DR3 318245158100878848. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum (Tri) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.