Its story

HIP 4950 has a visual magnitude of about 8.03: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 4950: right ascension 1h 3m 29s, declination +36° 50′ 31″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 4950. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 4950, HD 6202, Gaia DR3 369600631814543232. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.