Blows my mind I can go in my backyard and stare at something so far away. As far away as it is, it's STILL contained within our own galaxy...and our galaxy is one of trillions. The distance is mind boggling and gives me a sense of just how vast our universe is.
Hi Jason, another “let’s find” video, great! These will be very good for the beginner. I can remember my own experience of being lost in the sea of stars above me PS it’s an equilateral triangle 👍
Saw M3 for the first time the other day. Didn't expect to, with an 89mm Mak in suburban skies under a waxing gibbous moon. A smudge, but definitely something!
I live in a Bortle 5 town with a lot of local light pollution. With my cataracts I can usually see 4 or 5 stars on a dark, clear night. I find it hard to star hop. So, I just bought a Star Watcher AZ GTi.
Hi Jason! My friend, I haven't been a subscriber for very long, I only found you / your channel a short while back, but I really do love you / the channel. You explain things in such clear and easy to understand language, and you don't ( as far as i'm aware thus far ) use mega huge and expensive Telescopes / super expensive Triplet Apochromatic Refractors and the likes, which I feel makes your content much more acccessible and relevant to people. As you well know, our beloved hobby can be prohibitively expensive, so I feel it's so important that experienced amateur astronomers like yourself post content that is both budget and novice frienedly. So thank you Jason, you are really doing great things for our beloved hobby and long may it continue! Wes, Liverpool UK.
Just wanted to say thank you for all your uploads. Being new to the hobby, and by chance having the same telescope, the SW 130/900, I've found your videos have helped immensely. And I've only just started watching them, as I've only had my scope for a week. So lots to keep me busy. The time and effort you put in is much appreciated.👌
Hey Jason another lovely target to find and your method is so good to understand and how to find these objects. You bring back my early days when I first got into astronomy and these memories are like so special to me. Finding those deep sky objects and observing them then finding information about them from book and magazines. It's summer twilight now here in Scotland so I'll learn more about M3 duren the summer months. Keep up the great work and my very early days in astronomy are relived through your channel! Take care friend and clear skies too!
Hey Bushcraft. It's the same for me really I have so many fond memories from the early days and it's so nice to share my knowledge with others. Doing this channel is very nostalgic to me apart from helping others it's one of the main reasons I love doing it. Take care pal. Clear skies 🙂
Great video. Newbie here and have found your vids very entertaining and informative. Had M3 iny sight's tonight with my 32mm but couldn't get and decent focus with my 6.3mm. tried for about 30 mins with 25mm and 10mm and could see a faint fuzz but couldn't see anything more than that.
Hi Jason love the videos wish you were in the southern hemisphere. Everything is upside for me to check on your star maps but still great to watch. thanks for your explanations.
I got it tonight in my refractor, 120mm/1000mm fl. But it wasnt the best seeing and transparency, at about 21:30, Bortle 4.5 or so. Couldn't quite get inividual stars, but i'll have another go tomorrow if weather holds up. But I did find it :)
Thank you for helping us 5o find M3. So meny places to look to find things. May I ask why does your scopes dust cover have 2 caps on it? I have seen that on other scopes and have always woundered why. Could you fill me it, or do uo have a video about it? Thanks for all you do .....
Just observed m3 cluster using my 8inch dob. Was a very faint smudge. Still very cool and I was happy that I managed to locate it whilst the moon was very close to it. First deep sky object I’ve found, will definitely try and find it again!
Hello Craigscave. Great to hear you found it. Yes definitely have another look when there is no Moon the moon will drown out most deep sky targets so it's always advisable to go deep sky hunting on a moonless night. 🙂
@@smalloptics753 hi, thanks for your reply. I got a neodymium baeder filter, do you think that will help observing clusters? If not could you recommend a filter that does. Thanks very much
JUST WANT TO START OUT BY SAYING I REALLY ENJOY YOUR CHANNEL. THANK YOU AND KEEP UP THE GREAT VIDEOS! SECONDLY, I HAVE A REQUEST. I ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO ON LIGHT POLUTION BUT COULD YOU DO ONE A LITTLE MORE IN DEPTH ON A LITTLE DIFFERENT PORTION OF THE SUBJECT. I KNOW THERE IS A LIGHT POLUTION SCALE AND WEBSITES YOU CAN GO TO THAT TELL YOU THINGS ABOUT THE LIGHT POLUTION. HOW DO YOU USE THEM? WHAT IS CONSIDERED GOOD FOR ASTRONOMY? WHAT IS BAD? WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT TO SEE IN THE CITY? WHAT IF I TRAVEL 10 TO 20 MILES OUT SIDE THE CITY TO AN AREA THAT APPEARS TO BE DARKER? IS IT BETTER? OR DO I NEED TO USE THE LIGHT POLUTION MAP AND FIND AN AREA THAT ACTUALY HAS A LOWER NUMBER? THANKS AGAIN. APPRECIATE ALL YOU DO! CLEAR SKIES
After watching the video I went to see if I could find M3. I found it, but I have to say it wasn't easy because the reference stars are just too far apart, and the object itself is quite faint. Nonetheless, the triangle technique worked, I pointed the finder to that black area, and with my 25mm I could feel something was there (then I changed to larger magnifications). Thanks! Do you plan to cover all 110 Messier objects?, that would be awesome!
Messier 3 is a Beautiful Star Cluster. Also M13 is another Good One. I LOVE globular Clusters Too Jason! They are so pretty! By the Way, I like The 'Right angle Triangle Technique' its actually Very Accurate. While I was Observing in star maps I Noticed That M3 Literally does form a Triangle so why Night Use Shapes tp star hop, Its Not Sketchy!! ;)
Hi Friend. May I make a newbie question ? I'm new on all these stuff, I have a similar mount as yours, a EQ3-2 and I also bought a motor for it. But the question is: the mount has two bolts to lock the axis, that we let them loose to turn the OTA to the position we want. When we find what we are trying to observe, should I lock the mount turning these bolts ? Doing this, the axis it locked only the the commands or also for the motor ? should I always let them loose ? I'm asking this because I always let them loose, seems logical, mas the telescope is more suitable to loose the target, due to environment. thanks
Another helpful video Jason. I like globular clusters both visually and photographically. I was out imaging M13 the other night, and also looked at it through a small pair of binoculars.
Hey John. Hope you're well pal. Yes M13 is a great target too and I don't think I have done a video on it yet but I'm sure it will at some point. Take care bud.
im from EU and its rly hard for me to find M3 cuz its rising so late and the best point to see it is at 9 in the morning but obviously you can't see it at that time cuz its daytime :( so i can only try and catch it in its rising moments from 1:30 am til 4 or even 5am
Hey Jason, quick question. Im looking to get into visual astronomy and I want to buy myself a reflector. I live a bit outside of my town but theres still a descent amount of light pollution. Would it really affect my observing at night to a really bad point, that thought is making me reconsider my purchase of a reflector.
Hello dilla. Light pollution is always going to effect your views with any type of telescope and unfortunately is something a vast majority of us have to live with today. But even with a fair amount of light pollution there is still a lot of astronomy thatcan be done in towns and cities. The only thing it is going to be difficult to see is the really faint deep sky targets. I live on the outskirts of a town and still manage to do a lot of visual astronomy with a 5 inch telescope. My advice is to buy a telescope no bigger than 8 inches of aperture if you live in light polluted areas because you just can't get the full benefit of using larger telescope with light pollution. 5-8 inch telescope are good a size to get some awesome veiws and in my opinion 8inch of aperture is the perfect size for all conditions and targets. Hope this helps. All the best.
Id you find m3 might as well swing down and look at m13 not far from it. See the beauty of both clusters. Globular clusters are my favorite thing to look at.
I just subscribed. I recently bought a mountaintop near Yellowstone. I can almost touch the sky there. I'm interested in perhaps purchasing a quality affordable scope now and learning how to enjoy it. Thanks for the video. Anyone is welcome to reach out with tips, advice or a telescope to sell that meets my needs.
You can find M3 is in my garage. It revs 8,300 rpm and develops 420 hp. But i would not recommend buying bmw to anyone. Just unreliable design and denial by bmw and i am the original owner who took factory delivery in Munich and did everything to keep it maintained and well care for. Failed dual mass flywheel. If you wonder why i post this in an astronomy video, it's my way to get back at bmw, whenever i get an opportunity i share my consumer feedback. Over the years my goal is at least 1,000 negative reviews, i also tell it in person when the subject comes to car with anybody.
Blows my mind I can go in my backyard and stare at something so far away. As far away as it is, it's STILL contained within our own galaxy...and our galaxy is one of trillions. The distance is mind boggling and gives me a sense of just how vast our universe is.
Hi Jason, another “let’s find” video, great! These will be very good for the beginner. I can remember my own experience of being lost in the sea of stars above me PS it’s an equilateral triangle 👍
EQUILATERAL! Of course , it was a long day😂
Hearing Jason mention Bootes has made my day
Thanks
Thank you Glen very much appreciated my friend 😊
Saw M3 for the first time the other day. Didn't expect to, with an 89mm Mak in suburban skies under a waxing gibbous moon. A smudge, but definitely something!
Jason, your videos are awesome! Your enthusiasm always re-invigorates me!
Thank you Matthew great to hear my friend.
Same here!
Thanks ...as a beginner I find your videos very useful.. learnt a lot and enjoying my new hobby
Thank you Graham very much appreciated. All the best my friend.
I live in a Bortle 5 town with a lot of local light pollution. With my cataracts I can usually see 4 or 5 stars on a dark, clear night. I find it hard to star hop. So, I just bought a Star Watcher AZ GTi.
Subscribed! I really like the way you explain things, your very easy to listen to, if that makes sense. Thanks for your dedication.
Hi Jason! My friend, I haven't been a subscriber for very long, I only found you / your channel a short while back, but I really do love you / the channel. You explain things in such clear and easy to understand language, and you don't ( as far as i'm aware thus far ) use mega huge and expensive Telescopes / super expensive Triplet Apochromatic Refractors and the likes, which I feel makes your content much more acccessible and relevant to people. As you well know, our beloved hobby can be prohibitively expensive, so I feel it's so important that experienced amateur astronomers like yourself post content that is both budget and novice frienedly. So thank you Jason, you are really doing great things for our beloved hobby and long may it continue! Wes, Liverpool UK.
Hello Wesley, Thank you for your kind words and support my friend, you're more than welcome :)
@@smalloptics753 Thanks again Jason! I have learned so much from you / your channel my friend! Wes.
Just wanted to say thank you for all your uploads. Being new to the hobby, and by chance having the same telescope, the SW 130/900, I've found your videos have helped immensely. And I've only just started watching them, as I've only had my scope for a week. So lots to keep me busy. The time and effort you put in is much appreciated.👌
Nice Video Jason. I also love this cluster. congrats for the Amazing growth of the channel mate!
Thank you my friend hope you are well🙂
Thanks again, Jason. I do look forward to your videos!
So glad I found your channel Jason!
Thanks!
Very much appreciate my friend, all the best.
Good job. Don’t give up! We need you. Best
Hey Jason another lovely target to find and your method is so good to understand and how to find these objects. You bring back my early days when I first got into astronomy and these memories are like so special to me. Finding those deep sky objects and observing them then finding information about them from book and magazines.
It's summer twilight now here in Scotland so I'll learn more about M3 duren the summer months.
Keep up the great work and my very early days in astronomy are relived through your channel!
Take care friend and clear skies too!
Hey Bushcraft. It's the same for me really I have so many fond memories from the early days and it's so nice to share my knowledge with others. Doing this channel is very nostalgic to me apart from helping others it's one of the main reasons I love doing it. Take care pal. Clear skies 🙂
Danke!
Thank you very much my friend. All the best, stay safe.
Great video. Newbie here and have found your vids very entertaining and informative. Had M3 iny sight's tonight with my 32mm but couldn't get and decent focus with my 6.3mm. tried for about 30 mins with 25mm and 10mm and could see a faint fuzz but couldn't see anything more than that.
Hi Jason love the videos wish you were in the southern hemisphere. Everything is upside for me to check on your star maps but still great to watch. thanks for your explanations.
Thanks once again for a great video Jason, please keep them coming mate 🤜🏼🤛🏼
Your welcome buddy, will do👊
I got it tonight in my refractor, 120mm/1000mm fl. But it wasnt the best seeing and transparency, at about 21:30, Bortle 4.5 or so. Couldn't quite get inividual stars, but i'll have another go tomorrow if weather holds up. But I did find it :)
Thanks again Jason another great helpful video, your the best!!!
Thanks Jason much appreciated 🙂
Love the "let's find" videos. 2 billion targets and still a challenge to find the big ones.
Thank you for helping us 5o find M3. So meny places to look to find things. May I ask why does your scopes dust cover have 2 caps on it? I have seen that on other scopes and have always woundered why. Could you fill me it, or do uo have a video about it? Thanks for all you do .....
Just observed m3 cluster using my 8inch dob. Was a very faint smudge. Still very cool and I was happy that I managed to locate it whilst the moon was very close to it. First deep sky object I’ve found, will definitely try and find it again!
Hello Craigscave. Great to hear you found it. Yes definitely have another look when there is no Moon the moon will drown out most deep sky targets so it's always advisable to go deep sky hunting on a moonless night. 🙂
@@smalloptics753 hi, thanks for your reply. I got a neodymium baeder filter, do you think that will help observing clusters? If not could you recommend a filter that does. Thanks very much
I like your method. Easy and effective for noobs like me. Thanks
"Finding Bootes". Isn't that usually on your feeties? LOL
I tried to find M25, but I discovered it was in orbit around outer London. 🤣
... a very slow-moving orbit, too ;)
Hahaha! nice one.
JUST WANT TO START OUT BY SAYING I REALLY ENJOY YOUR CHANNEL. THANK YOU AND KEEP UP THE GREAT VIDEOS! SECONDLY, I HAVE A REQUEST. I ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO ON LIGHT POLUTION BUT COULD YOU DO ONE A LITTLE MORE IN DEPTH ON A LITTLE DIFFERENT PORTION OF THE SUBJECT. I KNOW THERE IS A LIGHT POLUTION SCALE AND WEBSITES YOU CAN GO TO THAT TELL YOU THINGS ABOUT THE LIGHT POLUTION. HOW DO YOU USE THEM? WHAT IS CONSIDERED GOOD FOR ASTRONOMY? WHAT IS BAD? WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT TO SEE IN THE CITY? WHAT IF I TRAVEL 10 TO 20 MILES OUT SIDE THE CITY TO AN AREA THAT APPEARS TO BE DARKER? IS IT BETTER? OR DO I NEED TO USE THE LIGHT POLUTION MAP AND FIND AN AREA THAT ACTUALY HAS A LOWER NUMBER? THANKS AGAIN. APPRECIATE ALL YOU DO! CLEAR SKIES
@JjKo17890 lol
After watching the video I went to see if I could find M3. I found it, but I have to say it wasn't easy because the reference stars are just too far apart, and the object itself is quite faint. Nonetheless, the triangle technique worked, I pointed the finder to that black area, and with my 25mm I could feel something was there (then I changed to larger magnifications). Thanks! Do you plan to cover all 110 Messier objects?, that would be awesome!
Messier 3 is a Beautiful Star Cluster. Also M13 is another Good One. I LOVE globular Clusters Too Jason! They are so pretty! By the Way, I like The 'Right angle Triangle Technique' its actually Very Accurate. While I was Observing in star maps I Noticed That M3 Literally does form a Triangle so why Night Use Shapes tp star hop, Its Not Sketchy!! ;)
Hello my friend. The triangle method has always worked for me so hopefully other people will find it useful to. Take care pal clear skies 😃
Here in my bortle 7 skies, its very VERY faint like you got to have some experience to see it
Hi Friend. May I make a newbie question ? I'm new on all these stuff, I have a similar mount as yours, a EQ3-2 and I also bought a motor for it.
But the question is: the mount has two bolts to lock the axis, that we let them loose to turn the OTA to the position we want. When we find what we are trying to observe, should I lock the mount turning these bolts ? Doing this, the axis it locked only the the commands or also for the motor ? should I always let them loose ?
I'm asking this because I always let them loose, seems logical, mas the telescope is more suitable to loose the target, due to environment. thanks
Small optics is now becoming large optics because it’s subscribers are rapidly increasing !!! 😂😅😁
I was trying to find this the other day, but it's quite low in my southern Skies.
Nice one 🔭
Another helpful video Jason. I like globular clusters both visually and photographically. I was out imaging M13 the other night, and also looked at it through a small pair of binoculars.
Hey John. Hope you're well pal. Yes M13 is a great target too and I don't think I have done a video on it yet but I'm sure it will at some point. Take care bud.
great video
im from EU and its rly hard for me to find M3 cuz its rising so late and the best point to see it is at 9 in the morning but obviously you can't see it at that time cuz its daytime :( so i can only try and catch it in its rising moments from 1:30 am til 4 or even 5am
Great video!!!
Another great video jay we'll done my friend 😁
Thanks pal appreciate it 😃
Hey Jason, quick question. Im looking to get into visual astronomy and I want to buy myself a reflector. I live a bit outside of my town but theres still a descent amount of light pollution. Would it really affect my observing at night to a really bad point, that thought is making me reconsider my purchase of a reflector.
Hello dilla. Light pollution is always going to effect your views with any type of telescope and unfortunately is something a vast majority of us have to live with today. But even with a fair amount of light pollution there is still a lot of astronomy thatcan be done in towns and cities. The only thing it is going to be difficult to see is the really faint deep sky targets. I live on the outskirts of a town and still manage to do a lot of visual astronomy with a 5 inch telescope. My advice is to buy a telescope no bigger than 8 inches of aperture if you live in light polluted areas because you just can't get the full benefit of using larger telescope with light pollution. 5-8 inch telescope are good a size to get some awesome veiws and in my opinion 8inch of aperture is the perfect size for all conditions and targets. Hope this helps. All the best.
@@smalloptics753 Thanks for the advice Jason!
Id you find m3 might as well swing down and look at m13 not far from it. See the beauty of both clusters. Globular clusters are my favorite thing to look at.
Is it possible to view this with a 60mm refractor?
Hello Ridley, Yes, but you will need a dark Moonless night to see it.
@@smalloptics753 Thank you, I been trying for about a week now and I don't believe I've caught it yet. I'm nothing if not persistent tho!
That’s a cool nebula
Thanks.
Bootie!
I can't really see M3 at my location. Bortle 8 sky🤣
Try again in a moonless sky.. Good luck 🙂
I just subscribed. I recently bought a mountaintop near Yellowstone. I can almost touch the sky there. I'm interested in perhaps purchasing a quality affordable scope now and learning how to enjoy it. Thanks for the video. Anyone is welcome to reach out with tips, advice or a telescope to sell that meets my needs.
You can find M3 is in my garage. It revs 8,300 rpm and develops 420 hp. But i would not recommend buying bmw to anyone. Just unreliable design and denial by bmw and i am the original owner who took factory delivery in Munich and did everything to keep it maintained and well care for. Failed dual mass flywheel. If you wonder why i post this in an astronomy video, it's my way to get back at bmw, whenever i get an opportunity i share my consumer feedback. Over the years my goal is at least 1,000 negative reviews, i also tell it in person when the subject comes to car with anybody.
Thanks!
Thank you for your kind donation my friend very much appreciated.
Danke!
Very much appreciated thank you my friend
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