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6 Comae Berenices

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What is 6 Comae Berenices

6 Comae Berenices shines within Berenice's Hair, the constellation woven from the lock the Egyptian queen offered to the gods. It is a white A-type star 199 light-years away, young in stellar terms and of a sharp blue-white hue. The region is home to the famous Coma Star Cluster and to swarms of distant galaxies, so this star sits in one of the densest archives of astronomical history in the northern sky.

Where it is and when to see it

6 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, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 53° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 64° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 41° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 75° S.

It ranks no. 17 in brightness among the 39 stars of Coma Berenices in our catalogue. To find it, start from Beta Comae Berenices, the brightest: it lies about 18° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 200 years ago.

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Astronomical data for 6 Comae Berenices

Constellation: Coma Berenices
Apparent magnitude: 5.09
Distance: 198.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 184.001° · Dec 14.899°
Catalogue: HIP 59819 · HD 106661

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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