Its story

HIP 4868 has a visual magnitude of about 6.78: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 4868: right ascension 1h 2m 36s, declination +27° 44′ 53″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 4868. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 4868, HD 6093, Gaia DR3 307810346075871104. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.