Its story

HIP 978 has a visual magnitude of about 7.83: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 978: right ascension 0h 12m 6s, declination +39° 2′ 19″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 978. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 978, HD 765, Gaia DR3 382818131674913152. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.