Its story

HIP 117870 has a visual magnitude of about 8.34: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 117870: right ascension 23h 54m 30s, declination +29° 38′ 15″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 117870. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 117870, HD 224016, Gaia DR3 2867224032558303744. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.