Its story

HIP 1261 has a visual magnitude of about 7.81: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 1261: right ascension 0h 15m 50s, declination +42° 20′ 38″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 1261. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 1261, HD 1144, Gaia DR3 383808280551810560. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.