Variable Stars in Messier 3
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The two small cropped images are pieces of the larger image taken with the CDK20N
telescope at Moore Observatory in a 300 second exposure on the night of March 27, 2012, UT. The
filter is a Johnson-Cousins V (490 to 580 nm) and would appear blue-green to the eye.
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