At begining of summer season, the Canes Venatici is close to zenith, it helps us to observe the deep sky objects within it. Canes Venatici has two major stars, a mag 3 star (Cor Caroli) and mag 4 star Chara
First object is M3, which is easy to locate around 40% from arcturus to cor caroli. It is completely resolved through my 16" with 7 mm EP, it is a globular contains yellow stars, like gold sand float in space.
Then M51 Wirlpool galaxy, is it generally use to test your star hopping ability, if you see anyone aiming at Alkaid at a star party, most of the time they are looking at M51, its spiral arms are sometime visible from silicon valley.
M63 Sunflower galaxy locates around 25% from Cor Caroli to Alkaid, look for a wedge arrangement in the area, M63 is 1.5 deg north from apex.
M94 is a bright, face on galaxy, look for a bright star 20% from Chara to Cor Caroli, center finder there, there are a cluster of stars perpendicular to the line connect alpha/beta on the edge of view circle, M94 is 1.5 deg east of the cluster.
M106 is a spiral galaxy that is devoured by a supermassive blackhole, most galaxy contains blackhole at center, our milky way contains a rather small blackhole (4 million sun) compare to Andromeda (200 million). God is merciful, or it is rather difficult for us!
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