Its story

HIP 86766 has a visual magnitude of about 8.37: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 86766: right ascension 17h 43m 46s, declination −66° 48′ 27″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 86766. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 86766, HD 160213, Gaia DR3 5812762597578589184. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.