Its story

HIP 78951 has a visual magnitude of about 7.68: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 78951: right ascension 16h 7m 2s, declination −62° 45′ 46″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 78951. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 78951, HD 143967, Gaia DR3 5829286951705106432. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.