Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hercules (Her)  ·  Contains:  HD150679  ·  Hercules Globular Cluster  ·  IC 4617  ·  M 13  ·  NGC 6205
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M13, the Hercules cluster, Matteo Mooren
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M13, the Hercules cluster

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M13, the Hercules cluster, Matteo Mooren
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M13, the Hercules cluster

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Object type : Globular cluster class V
Distance : 25,000 lightyears
Starcount : 300,000
Diameter : 128 lightyears
Age : 11.6 billion years

I shooted this cluster several times.Never improved the photo from May 2022, until now. This time, the session went very well. Moonless all the time, and the guiding was working well. Also post processing went good. That's why I deleted the M13 from last year, and published this M13. The most difficult part is allways the core of the cluster. Probably need better equipment for that.

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M13, the Hercules cluster, Matteo Mooren