Skip to main content
Stelvia
Back to the selector

Star profile

2 Comae Berenices

3D likeness based on its real data · class F · ~6,500 K

What is 2 Comae Berenices

2 Comae Berenices is a yellow-white F-type star about 330 light-years away, set in Berenice's Hair, the soft sheet of stars that seems to spill from the Lion. Its temperature runs slightly above the Sun's, giving a pale, crisp light. The region holds an old open cluster and looks out toward the Virgo galaxy cluster, one of the great gatherings of galaxies visible from Earth.

Where it is and when to see it

2 Comae Berenices lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.

Find it on the sky map

It opens in your browser. Free, no account, nothing to install.

The signature wall

Stelvia's sky works like a signature wall: anyone can leave their name and a message on a real star, and that signature goes up on the map for everyone to read. Signing is free.

A signature without a lock can be replaced by someone else's. The lock makes the signature permanent and lets you choose a symbolic name for the star, always shown next to the star's catalogue identifier. How the lock works

If you don't have an account yet, we'll ask for an email to confirm it's you: we send you a link and that's it, no password.

Write my signature

A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.

Astronomical data for 2 Comae Berenices

Constellation
Coma Berenices
Apparent magnitude
5.89
Distance
329.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000)
RA 181.069° · Dec 21.459°
Catalogue
HIP 58858 · HD 104827

A symbolic commemorative gift: neither the signature nor the chosen name implies ownership of the star or recognition by the IAU.

Other stars in Coma Berenices

Coma Berenices has 39 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 39 stars in Coma Berenices