Its story

HIP 90956 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 90956: right ascension 18h 33m 15s, declination +1° 50′ 48″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 90956. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 90956, HD 171183, Gaia DR3 4273861659219063296. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.