Its story

HIP 85018 has a visual magnitude of about 8.17: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 85018: right ascension 17h 22m 35s, declination −17° 42′ 13″ (J2000), in the region of the Ophiuchus constellation (IAU figure Oph).

HIP 85018. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 85018, HD 157201, Gaia DR3 4134911736278760448. In the SkyKeepsake Ophiuchus (Oph) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.