Its story

HIP 3176 has a visual magnitude of about 8.17: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 3176: right ascension 0h 40m 29s, declination +36° 27′ 2″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 3176. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 3176, HD 3742, Gaia DR3 365833395740575872. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.