Its story

HIP 4957 has a visual magnitude of about 8.06: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 4957: right ascension 1h 3m 34s, declination +26° 18′ 43″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 4957. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 4957, HD 6212, Gaia DR3 306655721427598720. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.