Its story

HIP 4196 has a visual magnitude of about 7.32: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 4196: right ascension 0h 53m 36s, declination +29° 4′ 49″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 4196. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 4196, HD 5138, Gaia DR3 311162825748674304. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.