Its story

HIP 74869 has a visual magnitude of about 8.22: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 74869: right ascension 15h 18m 0s, declination −68° 34′ 54″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 74869. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 74869, HD 135196, Gaia DR3 5823437201917615104. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.