Eyes on the Sky.com - 4/29/13
What better way to talk about a constellation representing stolen locks of long blonde hair in the sky than to tell the story of Ptolemy Soter and Berenice in Astronomy Theater? Despite being somewhat dim for us to see naked eye, the Coma Star Cluster - which represents a portion of the constellation Coma Berenices (literally meaning Berenice's Hair) - is best seen with binoculars anyway. Learn how this cluster was originally seen by the astronomy Ptolemy (different from Ptolemy Soter) as a nebula, but not listed as a star cluster until Jacques Melotte in his open cluster catalog in 1915, yet still not confirmed as one until Robert Trumpler did so years later. This cluster is to the east of Leo the Lion, but be sure to look west of Leo in Cancer the Crab for The Beehive / Praesepe / Messier 44 - another hazy patch in the sky known since antiquity.
link: Eyesonthesky.com
