Star profile

24 Comae Berenices

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

What is 24 Comae Berenices

24 Comae Berenices glows with the orange tone of a K-type star, a mature flame set some four hundred and fifty light-years away. It dwells in Berenice's Hair, a faint constellation famous for the clusters of galaxies looming in its background. Its light set out during the early modern era, when the first printed star charts were beginning to circulate in Europe, and reaches us today as a warm point in a sky region renowned for its stillness.

Where it is and when to see it

24 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 57° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 68° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 38° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 72° S.

It ranks no. 16 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 13° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 450 years ago.

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Astronomical data for 24 Comae Berenices

Constellation: Coma Berenices
Apparent magnitude: 5.03
Distance: 450.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 188.782° · Dec 18.377°
Catalogue: HIP 61418 · HD 109511

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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