Its story

HIP 4742 has a visual magnitude of about 7.48: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 4742: right ascension 1h 0m 54s, declination +36° 39′ 21″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 4742. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 4742, HD 5897, Gaia DR3 363625748190184576. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.