Its story

HIP 118281 has a visual magnitude of about 6.34: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 118281: right ascension 23h 59m 29s, declination +33° 43′ 24″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 118281. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 118281, HD 224635, Gaia DR3 2875096978193873024. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.