Its story

HIP 6858 has a visual magnitude of about 6.63: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 6858: right ascension 1h 28m 12s, declination +44° 2′ 57″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 6858. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 6858, HD 8862, Gaia DR3 396783136235463424. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.