Coma Berenices is the only constellation named after a real person, queen of Eygpt, sacrifies her beatiful hair to goddess in return to her husband's safety return. The open cluster Mel 111, virgo galaxy cluster give add hint to her blonde hair.
Coma Berenices is near galaxy pole, so there are no star brighter than 4 mag, and lots of galaxies, include famous virgo cluster.
To observe most of the wonders, locate Gamma Com, point the finder scope at 40% from Denebola to Alkaid, the Mel 111 open cluster is easy to distinguish, focus on a binary star located as No. 4 from Gamma, then move east about 1deg. NGC 4565 is a side on spiral galaxy with dark absorbing line.
The alpha com is located 40% from arcturus to denebola, center the fiinder at a binary star less 1deg north- east. M53 will be in scope. Within my 16", 220x, M53 looks memorable, some granularity into the core.
About third from alpha to gamma, there is a 5 mag star, there is a 5 mag star, 35 comae, centered on it and look north-east about 1 deg, there is M64, the black eye galaxy, it has dark dust edge looks like a ladie's eye wear shade.
Compare to NGC 4565, M100 is a face on spiral galaxy, point the finder at 20% from denebola to arcturus, notice there are two array of 5-6 mag stars converging at about 90 deg in the finder scope, center the finder at intersection, M100 should be in the view, it is small and dimmer than M51, but is conceivable!
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