M3 is a nearby fabulous globular cluster magnitude +6.3 in the constellation Canes Venatici near Bootes and Arcturus. 2/3s the size of the Moon, it’s only 33,000 LYs distant. Some 500 million stars are gravitationally linked in this globular which contains among the oldest stars at 11.4 billion years old compared to the age of the universe itself at 13.8 billion years.
This image was obtained remotely from the iTelescope’s T-14 setup in Mayhill, New Mexico in May 2021 with 4 x 300 sec each of RGB, total integration of 1 hour. The telescope used was a Takahashi FSQ106 with a SBIG STL-11000M CCD camera mounted on a Paramount GT-1100S mount. The images were stacked and processed with Astropixel Processor and further processed in Photoshop Creative Cloud.