Its story

HIP 6294 has a visual magnitude of about 8.11: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 6294: right ascension 1h 20m 47s, declination +47° 3′ 38″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 6294. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 6294, HD 8043, Gaia DR3 398440993611572224. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.