Notable Deep Sky Objects

M3 - Globular Cluster Class VI, m5.9, 45,000 members, 130 light year diameter, 27,000 light years away, absolute magnitude of -8.7, luminosity of 260,000 suns.

M51 - Spiral galaxy - the Whirlpool Galaxy, m8.4, 35 million light years away.  Appears connected to its satellite galaxy NGC 5195, tearing matter away from it, but it is not.

M63 - Spiral galaxy - the Sunflower Galaxy, m8.6, 35 million light years away.

M94 - Spiral galaxy, m8.2, 21 million light years away in the Canes Venatici Galaxy Cloud

M106 - Barred spiral galaxy, m8.4, 35 million light years away, titled 25 degrees to earth's line of sight