Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hercules (Her)  ·  Contains:  Hercules Globular Cluster  ·  IC 4617  ·  M 13  ·  NGC 6205  ·  NGC 6207
M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, Eshan Toorabally
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M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, Eshan Toorabally
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M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

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M13 is 25,000 light years away from Earth and consists of over 100,000 stars tightly packed into an area 150 light years across. This cluster orbits the Milky Way and includes stars as old as 12-13 billion years old; almost as old as the universe itself!

Well, nebula season came and went hidden behind the clouds, but the show must go on! This is my first attempt at a star cluster and it was my secondary target of the night.

This is a crop of a much wider field which I hope to include as an intermediary image. I would have cropped closer, but I wanted to keep the galaxy at the top of the image!

Thanks for looking!

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Description: This was the original wider field before I cropped in!

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M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, Eshan Toorabally