Its story

HIP 80978 has a visual magnitude of about 7.38: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 80978: right ascension 16h 32m 12s, declination −69° 45′ 56″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 80978. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 80978, HD 148236, Gaia DR3 5808638088951091200. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.