Its story

HIP 88982 has a visual magnitude of about 7.60: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 88982: right ascension 18h 9m 44s, declination −18° 50′ 40″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 88982. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 88982, HD 166052, Gaia DR3 4095551762614840320. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.