Object: Globular cluster MESSIER 3              Constell: CVN

RA: 13h 42.2m           Decl: +28° 23'          Epoch: 2000
Mag: 6.4m               Size: 16.2'             Type: 6

Observer: Jere Kahanpää
Obs. place: Hartola, Finland
Date/Time: 5./6.4.1997, 23.00

Telescope: N 205/1000
Magn: 133x              Filter:
Field: 22'              NE Lim.mag: 6.4m
Background sky: 2       Seeing: 2 
Weather: -7 °C, no Moon. Good.     

Brightness: 1!          Alt: 50°
Description: A beautiful globular cluster. Diameter about 8'.
Moderately concentrated, less sharply than M15. About 100 stars
resloved, the brightest being about mag. 11,5. A faint dust lane
obscures the SE edge.