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2011/05/12 D.M.Conrad

M13

Sedro-Woolley, Wa.

This view of M13 is about a 1 by 1.5 degree field of view in the constillation Hercules.
Discovery of this globular cluster is accredited to Edmund Halley in 1714. It received its M13 designation when Charles Messier cataloged the object in 1764.
There are about 300,000 stars (150,000 in other estimates) in this cluster located some 25,000 light years away. The diameter is about 150,000 light years.
If you consider a volume of almost 1.75 million light years you would have about stars about every 6 light years. Being there would be quite different night scenery.
The skies were partly cloudy with a 60% moon, I was lucky to get the results that I did.
Stars are visible to about the 18th magnitude and in the full size image and there are galaxys visible to about the sixteenth magnitude.
Some day I might be able to take a better picture from a better site and maybe a scope with more resolution.

Skywatcher 120ED @ F6.6 Borg reducer (7887)
10 5 minutes exposures, 16 flats, and 10 darks, processed with Nebulosity
Final processing with Canon DPP
Baader IR/UV filter
Older Mountain Instruments MI=250 guided by a Starshoot autoguider on a Bort 77Ach full exif


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