Its story

HIP 2851 has a visual magnitude of about 6.39: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 2851: right ascension 0h 36m 7s, declination +38° 15′ 7″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 2851. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 2851, HD 3265, Gaia DR3 368470883616848512. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.