Its story

HIP 988 has a visual magnitude of about 6.56: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 988: right ascension 0h 12m 16s, declination +43° 49′ 5″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 988. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 988, HD 775, Gaia DR3 385467581034676096. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.