Coma Star Cluster
A large, loose spray of stars in Coma Berenices, at its best to the eye or in binoculars.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Open star cluster
- Distance
- 280 light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.8, easy to see with the eye
- Size in the sky
- About 8 times the width of the full Moon
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Catalogue
- Mel 111
Figures from OpenNGC, CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikipedia, “Coma Star Cluster”, CC BY-SA 4.0 (van Leeuwen 2009). All sources