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Zooming in on Messier 13 in the constellation Hercules

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The constellation Hercules centred on Messier 13.

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20 x 4 second stack captured with a 8" f5 reflector and Canon EOS 350D.
Motorised EQ5 Mount.
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Messier 13 (M13, NGC 6205) is a magnitude +5.8 globular cluster located 25,100 light-years away in the constellation of Hercules.
Messier 13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.

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The cluster can be seen with 10 x 50 binoculars as a hazy smudge.



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Messier 13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.

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Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky. This glittering metropolis of stars is easily found in the winter sky in the constellation Hercules. This image is a composite of archival Hubble data taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys. Observations from four separate science proposals taken in November 1999, April 2000, August 2005, and April 2006 were used. The image includes broadband filters that isolate light from the blue, visible, and infrared portions of the spectrum.

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