Its story

HIP 85557 has a visual magnitude of about 8.51: it is a telescope star and remains difficult or invisible to the naked eye even in good conditions.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 85557: right ascension 17h 29m 4s, declination −64° 55′ 44″ (J2000), in the region of the Triangulum Australe constellation (IAU figure TrA).

HIP 85557. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 85557, HD 157634, Gaia DR3 5813818300542622720. In the SkyKeepsake Triangulum Australe (TrA) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.