Its story

HIP 4887 has a visual magnitude of about 8.45: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.

Equatorial coordinates for HIP 4887: right ascension 1h 2m 46s, declination +45° 25′ 31″ (J2000), in the region of the Andromeda constellation (IAU figure And).

HIP 4887. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 4887, HD 6085, Gaia DR3 377016081831061120. In the SkyKeepsake Andromeda (And) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.