Its story

HIP 4712 has a visual magnitude of about 8.07: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 4712: right ascension 1h 0m 32s, declination +38° 34′ 35″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 4712. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 4712, HD 5853, Gaia DR3 370745154699805184. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.