M3 in Canes Venatici 22nd March 2020 @ 02:08 UT
A compact ball of glistening stars formed before my eyes as frames stacked upon frames.
Image: 15 seconds x 40 frames (600 seconds total), gain 6584, bin 2x2, Raw 14, black level 99, camera temperature 10 deg C, 1 dark. Stacked in SharpCap Pro 3.2.6248.0. The image was stacked and adjusted in SharpCap. The image was scaled down and cropped in GIMP.
Globular clusters are amazing sites visually, so I was not disappointed by the view I got of M3 using my EAA setup.
Equipment: Celestron CPC-800 at F5.9, Alt-Az mount, Altair Astro Hypercam 294C Pro Cooled (fan), Celestron Focuser, CPWI controlled remotely via Microsoft RDP and ASCOM.
Astrometry: 33,000 light years distance, magnitude 6. Charles Messier came across M3 in 1764