Its story

HIP 4688 has a visual magnitude of about 6.79: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 4688: right ascension 1h 0m 13s, declination +47° 19′ 6″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 4688. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 4688, HD 5799, Gaia DR3 401981146175891072. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.