M13 - The Globular Cluster in Hercules
| The globular cluster M13 in
Hercules. It was imaged through the Society's 14" telescope using
a Starlight Xpress CCD on 28/9/02, with a 16-second exposure. M13 is about 23,000 light years from us, and is generally considered to be the finest globular cluster in the northern sky. At about 6th magnitude it is a faint naked-eye object under very good seeing conditions. |
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