M3 Globular Star Cluster

Containing around 500,000 stars M3 (Messier 3) can be found in the constellation of Canes Venatici. Given it's distance of 34,000 light years away, surprisingly you should be able to pick out M3 with a pair of 10x50 binoculars from say a bortle 6 or 7 sky.

Data gathered at Kielder Forest, UK.

 

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Askar FRA400

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong UV/IR.

Guiding Altair Starwave 50mm, ZWO 120mm mini & asiair+.

60 light frames of 120 seconds each.

Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats using WBPP in PixInsight.

Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2 & PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

Done