Its story

HIP 5142 has a visual magnitude of about 7.64: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 5142: right ascension 1h 5m 50s, declination +39° 22′ 27″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 5142. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 5142, HD 6438, Gaia DR3 371062466883559424. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.