COMA BERENICES ("

See also:

• BERENICE
• BERENICE, or BERNICE

BERENICE'S

See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

HAIR ")  , in astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere; it was first mentioned by Callimachus, and Eratosthenes (3rd century B.C.), but is not included in the 48 asterisms of Ptolemy . It is said to have been named by Conon, in order to console Berenice, queen of Ptolemy Euergetes, for the loss of a lock of her hair, which had been stolen from a temple to Venus . This constellation is sometimes, but wrongly, attributed to Tycho Brahe . The most interesting member of this group is 24 Comae, a fine, wide double star, consisting of an orange star of magnitude 51, and a blue star, magnitude 7 .