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Comaberenices

OBSERVER:	Ola Karlsson
COMPOSER:	Ola Karlsson
DATE:	23 Mars 2014
POSITION:	AZ: 160 00 00 ALT: 50 00 00
EXPOSURE TIME:	9x15s, combined

Coma Berenices is a northern sky constellation without bright stars. The constellation is of fairly modern date but the name is from antiquity and has a historical story. The area is easiest to view during the spring. The constellation hosts the north galactic pole, thus it is an area with relatively few Milky Way stars. Instead it is an area rich in galaxies but none bright enough to be seen in the image. On the other hand, the globular cluster M53 can be seen as a faint dot.

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