Its story

HIP 1257 has a visual magnitude of about 8.26: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 1257: right ascension 0h 15m 46s, declination +49° 19′ 49″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 1257. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 1257, HD 1120, Gaia DR3 392916458780844928. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.