Coma Berenices Com
Coma Berenices is one of the 88 constellations, covering 389 square degrees of the sky (42nd largest). It is highest at midnight in April and best in the evening sky in May and June.
15 of its best-known objects have a page of their own here.
Facts
| Abbreviation | Com |
|---|---|
| Size | 389 square degrees (42nd largest of the 88; the full Moon covers about 0.2) |
| Middle (J2000) | 12h 45m, +22° |
| Highest at midnight | April (in the evening, around 8–10 pm: May and June) |
| How high | From India (about 20° N) its middle climbs to about 88° above the horizon; from 50° N, to about 62°. |
| Pages here | 15 objects |
Galaxies
11Star clusters
3Other objects
1Brightest NGC and IC objects
OpenNGC| Object | Type | Magnitude | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| M53 · NGC 5024 | Globular star cluster | 7.8 | 9′ |
| M64 · NGC 4826 (Black Eye Galaxy) | Galaxy | 8.5 | 10.5′ |
| M85 · NGC 4382 | Galaxy | 9.1 | 7′ |
| NGC 4725 (on the map) | Galaxy | 9.4 | 9.7′ |
| M100 · NGC 4321 | Galaxy | 9.5 | 6.1′ |
| NGC 4494 (on the map) | Galaxy | 9.8 | 4.4′ |
| M99 · NGC 4254 (Coma Pinwheel) | Galaxy | 9.8 | 5′ |
| NGC 4559 (on the map) | Galaxy | 9.9 | 10.6′ |
| NGC 5053 (on the map) | Globular star cluster | 10 | 4.8′ |
| NGC 4473 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.1 | 4.3′ |
| NGC 4293 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.2 | 6.2′ |
| NGC 4414 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.2 | 2′ |
Smaller magnitudes are brighter; the faintest stars the eye sees are about 6. The full Moon is about 31′ across.
Data: IAU constellation boundaries (Roman 1987) · OpenNGC (Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data sources & credits