Its story

HIP 3978 has a visual magnitude of about 7.93: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 3978: right ascension 0h 51m 11s, declination +33° 33′ 29″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 3978. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 3978, HD 4870, Gaia DR3 361332849834160384. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.