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Coma Berenices: Berenice's Hair

(possessive form Comae Berenices, abbreviation Com)
Formed by Bayer, in his 1603 Uranometria, by removing from Ptolemy's version of Leo.

Map of Coma Berenices
Modified version of Wikimedia Commons map by Torsten Bronger


Stars in Coma Berenices

Other Objects of Interest

NGC 4501 (= M88), a tenth-magnitude spiral galaxy (type Sbc I) in the Virgo Cluster (RA 12 31 59, Dec +14 25 15).