Beta Com

Beta Comae Berenices
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Beta Comae Berenices is a yellow-orange
star that is brighter than our Sun, Sol. (See
a Digitized Sky Survey image of Beta Comae
Berenices from the Nearby Stars Database.) ...

BETA COM (Beta Comae Berenices). The naked-eye sky is dominated by luminous stars, stars that are far brighter than the Sun. Only a few stars like the Sun and fainter sneak through.

Beta Comae is actually the brightest star in the constellation, and certainly the closest at 27 light years. It too has a diameter equal to the Sun.

00 4983 beta COM 13 11 52.3 +27 52 41 G0V 4.26 0.57 4737 gamma COM 12 26 56.2 +28 16 06 K2IIICN+1 4.36 1.13 4602 12 04 16.5 +21 27 33 F0IV-V 5.87 0.22 4632 12 10 31.5 +16 48 33 A4V 6.39 0.06 4640 12 11 51.1 +25 52 13 K4III 5.66 1.41 4643 12 12 09.

The brightest star in Coma Berenices is [2801] beta Comae Berenices, with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.26. It is a main sequence dwarf only slightly brighter than the Sun.

NGC4961, same field of view as 41 Comae Bernices, which is 1 degree west of beta Comae Bernices.
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The plane of the Milky Way is inclined by about 60° to the ecliptic (the plane of the Earth's orbit), with the North Galactic Pole situated at right ascension 12h 49m, declination +27.4° (B1950) near beta Comae Berenices.

See also: Light, Sky, Star, Night, Magnitude