Its story

HIP 4863 has a visual magnitude of about 7.87: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 4863: right ascension 1h 2m 32s, declination +39° 28′ 31″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 4863. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 4863, HD 6086, Gaia DR3 370902728460057216. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.