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OK - here's a new target for us - the globular cluster M3 which lies between the 
constellations of Bootes and Coma Berenices,

Globular clusters are old star systems - as old as the galaxy - 10billion years
or so. So all the hot blue stars have long since died. They only contain old, cool,
low mass  red stars.

Maybe a million stars in this cluster.

Globular clusters are in orbit around our own Milky Way galaxy - a few hundred 
such clusters are known.

Here attached is a B-band image - 5x60s exposures.

What I'll do shortly is actually measure the brightnesses of a few stars on this and
on a V band image, and construct a colour-magnitude diagram for you from these data.

Watch this space - it'll take me a little while though!

Andy