Its story

HIP 87521 has a visual magnitude of about 8.40: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 87521: right ascension 17h 52m 52s, declination −0° 2′ 15″ (J2000), in the region of the Scutum constellation (IAU figure Sct).

HIP 87521. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 87521, HD 162794, Gaia DR3 4371631637601309696. In the SkyKeepsake Scutum (Sct) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.