Its story

HIP 88612 has a visual magnitude of about 7.86: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 88612: right ascension 18h 5m 32s, declination −1° 57′ 56″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 88612. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 88612, HD 165316, Gaia DR3 4178102232309758976. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.