Its story

HIP 85420 has a visual magnitude of about 7.96: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 85420: right ascension 17h 27m 19s, declination −65° 0′ 8″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 85420. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 85420, HD 157321, Gaia DR3 5813911484154041344. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.