Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 3  ·  NGC 5272  ·  PGC 1834325  ·  PGC 1835898  ·  PGC 1840051
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M3 unsharpened, lowenthalm
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M3 unsharpened

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M3 unsharpened

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M3 was my first test target last night, and the star images were so sharp that before I moved on to my other targets for the evening, I ended up capturing two 8 minute live-stacked images to combine into this final image. The seeing was so good, I decided not to apply any sharpening. I just removed a little color noise from the final image and tidied up a couple ragged corners where I didn't have a full set of data in both source images.

The good seeing really made the numerous little galaxies scattered around and behind M3 pop out nicely.

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M3 unsharpened, lowenthalm

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