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Messier 3 is well placed

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The globular cluster M3 (NGC 5272; mag 6.3) in Canes Venatici will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 18 April it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.

From Fairfield , it is visible all night. It will become visible at around 20:45 (EDT), 39° above your eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 00:51, 77° above your southern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight at around 04:58, 38° above your western horizon.

At a declination of 28°22'N, it is easiest to see from the northern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much south of 41°S.

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At magnitude 6.3, M3 is quite faint, and certainly not visible to the naked eye, but can be viewed through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of M3 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
M3 13h42m10s 28°22'N Canes Venatici 6.3 0'00"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 18 Apr 2019

The sky on 18 April 2019
Sunrise
06:07
Sunset
19:35
Twilight ends
21:16
Twilight begins
04:27

13-day old moon
Waning Gibbous

99%

13 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:20 11:16 17:13
Venus 05:05 10:59 16:54
Moon 18:50 00:43 06:29
Mars 08:15 15:47 23:18
Jupiter 00:04 04:42 09:20
Saturn 01:52 06:34 11:17
All times shown in EDT.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

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© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

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41.14°N
73.26°W
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