Its story

HIP 84497 has a visual magnitude of about 8.09: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 84497: right ascension 17h 16m 30s, declination −27° 33′ 58″ (J2000), in the region of the Scorpius constellation (IAU figure Sco).

HIP 84497. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 84497, HD 156062, Gaia DR3 4108197898724077568. In the SkyKeepsake Scorpius (Sco) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.