Its story

HIP 88850 has a visual magnitude of about 7.77: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 88850: right ascension 18h 8m 17s, declination −10° 33′ 3″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 88850. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 88850, HD 165830, Gaia DR3 4157217696137317376. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.