Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hercules (Her)  ·  Contains:  Hercules Globular Cluster  ·  M 13  ·  NGC 6205
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M13, Chris Kagy
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M13

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M13

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Everybody here knows M13, the big globular cluster in Hercules.  It's hard to appreciate its size, though.  imagine, for a moment, that the distance from the Sun to the Kyuper Belt was 1 inch. At this scale, the diameter of M13 would be 2 miles!  Approximately 36,700 solar systems could fit size-by-side inside this object.  That's just crazy.

This is an LRGB image, collected with a CDK14 at SRO
L 900s for 4 hours
R, G, B 600s for 1 hour 20 minutes

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M13, Chris Kagy

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