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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:44 
Transit: 13:02 
Sunset: 21:19
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11 Comae Berenices

Below the horizon.  Rise: 11:41 | Tran: 19:13 | Set: 2:49
Alt: -6.74°   Az: 50.29°   Direction: South-South-West

11 Comae Berenices is a double giant star of spectral class G8 in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

11 Comae Berenices visual magnitude is 4.74. Because of its moderate brightness, 11 Comae Berenices is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 11 Comae Berenices star
DSS2 image of 11 Comae Berenices. The red arrow shows the motion of 11 Comae Berenices during the next 1000 years (-1.85 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.53 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

12h 22m 00s
+17° 39’ 05”
15h 33m 11s
03h 55m 11s

J2000

12h 20m 43s
+17° 47’ 34”

Galactic Coordinates

264.15°
78.28°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 11 Comae Berenices.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.74
Giant

-0.48
G8III
4719K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 11 Comae Berenices is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 11 Comae Berenices. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

11 Comae Berenices is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 11 Comae Berenices double sysyem:

4.74
12.74
8
9.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

11 Comae Berenices is distant 360.62 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 42 kilometers per second.

110.62
360.62
42 km/s
-0.111 arcsec/y
0.092"/y

Alternative Designations

11 Comae Berenices
SAO100053
SAO100053

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 11 Comae Berenices rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 72.3°
Max altitude: 56.2°
Azimuth: 287.7°