Its story

HIP 3981 has a visual magnitude of about 6.70: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 3981: right ascension 0h 51m 12s, declination +38° 2′ 31″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 3981. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 3981, HD 4869, Gaia DR3 367667243696371072. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.