Imaging M3 is more than just an exercise in precision — it’s a quiet confrontation with scale, time, and the staggering probability that life might be far more common than we once imagined.

Testing the new QHY268M camera

Messier 3 (M3) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs.

M3... considered one of the finest northern globular clusters. Taken from light a light polluted sky in Davie FL.