Star profile

HIP 59856

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 59856

Coma Berenices is the lock of hair Queen Berenice cut off, according to Greek legend, and this orange ember burns quietly among its strands. The light reaching the eyepiece tonight set out around 1709, the winter when all Europe froze under the Great Frost. K-type, cool atmosphere, the colour of old embers: a star that lets itself be watched slowly, without pretension, three hundred and sixteen light-years away.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 59856 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.

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Astronomical data for HIP 59856

Constellation: Coma Berenices
Apparent magnitude: 4.99
Distance: 316.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 184.126° · Dec 33.062°
Catalogue: HIP 59856 · HD 106760

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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