Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 3  ·  NGC 5263  ·  NGC 5272
M3 Globular Cluster (and NGC 5263), Andrew James Steinmetz
M3 Globular Cluster (and NGC 5263)
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M3 Globular Cluster (and NGC 5263)

M3 Globular Cluster (and NGC 5263), Andrew James Steinmetz
M3 Globular Cluster (and NGC 5263)
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M3 Globular Cluster (and NGC 5263)

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It took me awhile to process this one since StarNet couldn't fully remove all stars, and many of my early attempts at stretching blew out the cluster's core. I finally landed on a happy middle using Arcsinh stretching which I liked. I pumped the saturation up a bit, and overall am happy with my result. NGC 5263 is the cigar-shaped smudge in the top right. Side note, I see a smudge to the right of the bright star in the bottom right corner. A galaxy? Hmm... Turns out there's like 6-8 galaxies visible in this image at least. That smudge I pointed out is PGC 93726. I also found PGC 93727 and PGC 214135. Awesome! Edit: There's some quasars in the image too which I def. want to highlight sometime.

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M3 Globular Cluster (and NGC 5263), Andrew James Steinmetz