Its story

HIP 5249 has a visual magnitude of about 7.46: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 5249: right ascension 1h 7m 9s, declination +38° 39′ 1″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 5249. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 5249, HD 6586, Gaia DR3 370608402941216128. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.