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14 Comae Berenices

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What is 14 Comae Berenices

14 Comae Berenices is the second brightest star of the Coma Star Cluster —that faint swarm that looks like loose hair across the spring sky—. It is a shell star: it spins so fast that its atmosphere streams off in a gaseous ring visible in its spectrum. Its shape is a flattened ellipsoid, the equator bulging more than ten percent above the poles. The light we see set out around 1750.

Where it is and when to see it

14 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 66° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 77° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 29° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 63° S.

It ranks no. 11 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 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 280 years ago.

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Astronomical data for 14 Comae Berenices

Constellation: Coma Berenices
Apparent magnitude: 4.92
Distance: 276.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 186.600° · Dec 27.268°
Catalogue: HIP 60697 · HD 108283

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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