Its story

HIP 5966 has a visual magnitude of about 7.69: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 5966: right ascension 1h 16m 43s, declination +36° 18′ 29″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 5966. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 5966, HD 7624, Gaia DR3 321532835306296704. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.