Its story

HIP 84996 has a visual magnitude of about 7.44: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 84996: right ascension 17h 22m 22s, declination −26° 12′ 57″ (J2000), in the region of the Scorpius constellation (IAU figure Sco).

HIP 84996. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 84996, HD 157094, Gaia DR3 4109840259878898176. In the SkyKeepsake Scorpius (Sco) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.