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Tuesday 5 May 2015

Great Hercules Cluster M13

M13 (NGC 6205) The Great Cluster in the constellation Hercules is a globular cluster which lies some 25,000 light years away from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 5.8. It's apparent size/diameter is 16.6 arc minutes.
It's age is estimated at 14 billion years and it's 'size' 160 light years in diameter.

This image was taken with Skywatcher 120/1000 and Canon 100d. 30 seconds at iso 1600.


Same image but adjusted levels in Gimp2.8


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