Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hercules (Her)  ·  Contains:  HD150679  ·  HD150998  ·  Hercules Globular Cluster  ·  IC 4617  ·  M 13  ·  NGC 6205  ·  NGC 6207
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M13

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The great cluster in Hercules.  At a distance of 22.2 thousand light-years and an apparent magnitude of 5.8, it's one of the best-known star clusters in the sky.  M13 is 145 light years in diameter and contains somewhere between 300,000 and 1 million suns.

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M13, Jerry Gerber