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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:43 
Transit: 13:00 
Sunset: 21:17
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β Comae Berenices (beta Comae Berenices)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 11:53 | Tran: 20:35 | Set: 5:22
Alt: -5.84°   Az: 331.63°   Direction: North-North-West

β Comae Berenices is a double main-sequence star of spectral class F9 in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

β Comae Berenices visual magnitude is 4.26. Because of its moderate brightness, β 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 β Comae Berenices (beta Comae Berenices) star
DSS2 image of β Comae Berenices. The red arrow shows the motion of β Comae Berenices during the next 1000 years (-13.35 arcmin in Right Ascension and 14.70 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

13h 13m 05s
+27° 44’ 36”
09h 50m 51s
23h 03m 56s

J2000

13h 11m 52s
+27° 52’ 41”

Galactic Coordinates

43.33°
85.4°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for β Comae Berenices (beta Comae Berenices).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.26
Main-sequence

4.45
F9V
6088K

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

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

Star System Properties

β Comae Berenices is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the β Comae Berenices double sysyem:

4.26
10.06
5.8
90.8 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

β Comae Berenices is distant 29.85 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 6 kilometers per second.

9.15
29.85
6 km/s
-0.801 arcsec/y
0.882"/y

Alternative Designations

β Comae Berenices
(beta Comae Berenices)
43 Comae Berenices
SAO82706
SAO82706

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 62.3°
Max altitude: 66.3°
Azimuth: 297.7°