Its story

HIP 6401 has a visual magnitude of about 6.67: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 6401: right ascension 1h 22m 13s, declination +43° 35′ 3″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 6401. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 6401, HD 8209, Gaia DR3 396700054387826304. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.