Its story

HIP 2966 has a visual magnitude of about 7.82: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 2966: right ascension 0h 37m 44s, declination +42° 31′ 29″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 2966. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 2966, HD 3447, Gaia DR3 381596509832718848. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.