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  • RA: 13:42.2
  • Dec: +28:23
  • Magnitude: 6.2
  • Distance: 33,900 ly
  • Constellation:  Canes Venatici

 

  • Scope: 8" SCT at f/10
  • Autoguider:  ST-4, faint mode
  • Sky conditions:  great transparency and seeing
  • Camera: Hutech Modified Canon 300D
  • Exposure:  8 x 2 minutes
  • Date:  April 26, 2006

 

 

 
 
Comments:  Cold for this time of year (upper 30s to low 40s) and very clear night.  M3 is one of the most outstanding globular clusters containing an estimated half million stars.  It is further away than the center of the Milky Way.