not tonight anyway. Of course, I work tomorrow and don’t want to be up late tonight. I also play saxophone in a community band and we have a concert tonight.
So instead, I’ll post a prior observation.
Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair) is a faint constellation. It is easily visible to the naked eye in dark rural skies, such as at my parents’ house near Moorefield, West Virginia. There are two stars, and a star cluster (the hair itself). The legend is Princess Berenice offerred her hair to Zeus and left it on an altar. The hair was stolen, but her servents convinced her that Zeus took the hair and placed it in the sky. The asterism that used to represent Leo’s fluffy tail was then renamed.
The cluster has several naked-eye stars (in dark skies, but not in Bowie) and the dimmer stars leave the impression of nebulosity. In binoculars, it is beautiful–the brightest stars are just brilliant.
