Constellations
Coma Berenices (Com)
Berenice's Hair
Also known as berenices hair.
6 looks for Coma Berenices
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Coma Berenices
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: Berenice's Hair
- IAU abbreviation
- Com
- Its stars are named
- Comae Berenices (as in "Alpha Comae Berenices")
- Family
- Ursa Major family
- Where
- The northern sky: seen best from north of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in May
- Centre
- Right ascension 12h 57m, declination +24° 39′
- The figure
- 3 stars joined by 2 lines
- Brightest star
- β Com, magnitude 4.26
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- β Commag 4.26
- Al Dafirah (γ Com)mag 4.36
- Diadem (α Com)mag 4.47
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation