| NOTES |
DATE:
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
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TIME:
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11:00
pm EDT
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CAMERA:
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Canon
EOS 300D Digital Rebel
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EXPOSURE:
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6 minutes @ ISO 800 |
| LOCATION: |
Owl
Observatory - Kalamazoo
Nature Center |
INSTRUMENT:
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Meade
12" f/10 LX200 SCT |
PROCESSING:
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Images obtained with DSLRFocus 3.
Dark frame subtracted, aligned, stacked with DeepSkyStacker.
Further
enhancements with
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 |
COMMENTS:
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Globular
Cluster M3 (NGC 5272) is technically located in the star-poor, but deep
sky-rich constellation Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs. Many
assume this massive collection of approximately 45,000 stars is located
in Bootes, but it's actually closer to the boarder of Coma Berenices.
M3 is one of the three brightest globular clusters in the
northern hemisphere. Its visual appearance is perhaps second only to M13 in Hercules. This colossal collection of stars is about 130 light-years in diameter and 27,000 light-years away.
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