Its story

HIP 9959 has a visual magnitude of about 8.13: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 9959: right ascension 2h 8m 12s, declination +19° 21′ 42″ (J2000), in the region of the Aries constellation (IAU figure Ari).

HIP 9959. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 9959, Gaia DR3 93207632206779520. In the SkyKeepsake Aries (Ari) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.