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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:43 
Transit: 13:00 
Sunset: 21:17
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31 Comae Berenices

Above the horizon.  Rise: 11:35 | Tran: 20:15 | Set: 4:59
Alt: 16.56°   Az: 66.58°   Direction: East-North-East

31 Comae Berenices is a variable hypergiant star of spectral class G0 in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

31 Comae Berenices visual magnitude is 4.94. Because of its moderate brightness, 31 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 31 Comae Berenices star
DSS2 image of 31 Comae Berenices. The red arrow shows the motion of 31 Comae Berenices during the next 10000 years (-2.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

12h 52m 56s
+27° 24’ 09”
17h 28m 47s
06h 21m 43s

J2000

12h 51m 41s
+27° 32’ 26”

Galactic Coordinates

114.93°
89.58°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 31 Comae Berenices.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.94
Hypergiant

0.07
G0III
5706K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 31 Comae Berenices is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 31 Comae Berenices. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

31 Comae Berenices is distant 306.97 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 1 kilometers per second.

94.16
306.97
-1 km/s
-0.012 arcsec/y
-0.008"/y

Alternative Designations

31 Comae Berenices
SAO82537
SAO82537

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 31 Comae Berenices rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 62.6°
Max altitude: 65.9°
Azimuth: 297.4°