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I am having a hard time finding M3 with the 15x70, how bright should it be? Limiting Mag. of 5 or so.
I found M5 with ease.
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Catapoman
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IIRC, M3 and M5 are similar visually with M3 being slightly dimmer. It definitely should be visible in your Mag 5 skies. I live in similar mag skies and have seen M3 with my 15x70s. To find it I usually makes a rough equalateral triangle out of Rho Bootis, Eta Bootis (just below Arcturus) and M3 (being the top of the triangle).
Keep looking up and congratulations on your new 15x70s.
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jack savard
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ok you have the famous mag 5 sky (god bled you )
BUT I am a biginner and I have trouble to find the m2 or m3 or m51 or m101 do you have a liste of meesier objects whit alt and azimut for a given time of the year
or you have and other way to find easily
some book said in the virgo or something like this BUT where is virgo I am a biginner.............
I see south or nort at what angle only that I nead
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dgs©
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Jack... have you downloaded and installed Cartes du Ciel yet? www.astrosurf.com/astropc It is FREE. It will give you Alt & Az numbers of the cursor location at the bottom left of the screen. Also RA & Dec numbers. Plus loads of other good stuff, like what the stars in the vicinity look like. Get it set just right (FOV, Magnitude limits, etc) and try to match what you see in the sky with what's on the computer screen.
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Anonymous
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Jack I also use Cartes du Ciel, it is a great program.
You can also get a list of the Messier objects from this web site, and when best to see them.
http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/binomess/binomess.html
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Anonymous
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Catapoman thanks for the help. I had clear skies tonight and was able to find M3.
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Catapoman
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Thats' great!  Did you get a chance to compare it to M5?
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Anonymous
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Yes I did, M5 was a little brighter than M3.
Thanks Again!
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