Its story

HIP 90449 has a visual magnitude of about 8.10: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 90449: right ascension 18h 27m 21s, declination +77° 8′ 4″ (J2000), in the region of the Ursa Minor constellation (IAU figure UMi).

HIP 90449. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 90449, HD 171826, Gaia DR3 2269511060520205312. In the SkyKeepsake Ursa Minor (UMi) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.