Northern Globulars
I had a look at some northern globular clusters last night with my 12" Dob.
Magnitude 6.2 M3 and mag 7.6 M53 are easy objects.
NGC 5466 is a faint mag 9.0 GC 5.1 degrees east of M3.
M3 is about half way from beta Com to N5466.
NGC 5053 is a very faint mag 9.5 GC 58' from M53. I missed it the first time I swept over it.
M53 and N5053 form a triangle with alpha Com.
Has anyone seen the mag 10.3 GC NGC 4147?
The attached SkyMapPro map shows the northern sky at midnight with south up.
I also looked at the Messier galaxies on the map while I was in the area.
Last edited by glenc; 09-04-2010 at 05:41 AM.
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