Its story

HIP 77696 has a visual magnitude of about 8.24: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 77696: right ascension 15h 51m 48s, declination +73° 19′ 3″ (J2000), in the region of the Ursa Minor constellation (IAU figure UMi).

HIP 77696. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 77696, HD 143077, Gaia DR3 1696655606843584256. In the SkyKeepsake Ursa Minor (UMi) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.