Its story

HIP 6259 has a visual magnitude of about 6.77: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 6259: right ascension 1h 20m 18s, declination +43° 30′ 37″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 6259. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 6259, HD 8016, Gaia DR3 373428409749161984. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.