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M3 (Globular Cluster, in Canes Venatici)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 12-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Apr 21 01:00:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1527
This evening, my friends, Mike Dzubaty, his son Mike, Steve Borer and I visited the Yale Observatory to view deep space objects through their fine observatory telescopes. Our first object was globular cluster M3. We were able to easily see many individual stars in M3. I saw speckling even towards the center of M3. M44, the behive cluster, featured several groups of triple star systems within the open cluster. The galaxies we observed were M65,66,81,82,87& ngc4438. M82 impressed me the most because of all the dust lanes in it.The others were mostly views of the cores with some haze around them. For double stars, we observed Iota Cassiope and Mizar. The Iota double was a gold primary star and a blue secondary star, while Mizar was split into two white componants. Finally we viewed Jupiter, Saturn and Mars through Yale's 200 year old 8" refractor. I'm not sure, but I think I saw Mars' north polar ice cap. Next month, we will be heading back to Yale's obsevatory for more astronomy.
M3 (Globular Cluster, in Canes Venatici)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 18-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Milford, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat May 14 01:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1233
This evening, my friends and I attended a local star party. M3 was a perfect globular cluster in the 18" dob. I was able to see individual stars with no trouble. For the first time in many years, I observed the galaxy M105. All that we could see was the central core.For Jupiter and Saturn, the views were great. On Jupiter, there was a white oval on both the north and south equitorial belts. In both cases, the ovals looked stretched out. Two other belts were also visible. On Saturn, three belts were clearly visible. On Saturns rings, both the Cassini and Encke divitions were visible.
M3 (Globular Cluster, in Canes Venatici)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: 50-mm equatorial reflector Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Fri Jun 25 20:35:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 1194
found midway between Arcturus and Cor Caroli,this globular cluster appears as an out of focus star through my scope.
M3 (Globular Cluster, in Canes Venatici, Est. RaDec 13h42.2m +28.23)
Observer: Alan Shaffer (e-mail: milkyway@gte.net, web: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3693/)
Instrument: 10-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector Location: Redondo Beach, California, US
Light pollution: severe Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Apr 11 16:30:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 117
Very large. Easy to spot even under poor conditions. Used 24.5mm SWA at f/10 for 104X. The field is VERY large and concentrated at the middle. Total field is @ 10 minutes of arc.
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