Its story

HIP 473 has a visual magnitude of about 8.25: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 473: right ascension 0h 5m 42s, declination +45° 48′ 41″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 473. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 473, HD 38, Gaia DR3 386653851004022144. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.