Its story

HIP 2948 has a visual magnitude of about 6.84: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 2948: right ascension 0h 37m 26s, declination +40° 19′ 57″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 2948. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 2948, HD 3431, Gaia DR3 380755245998283008. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.