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Faiz Ahmad
Virginia, USA
06/15/2019
11:48 pm

Equipment Details:

Celestron Edge 8 HD telescope and Sony A7 Rii mirror less camera/ISO 2000

Post-processing Details:

Added clarity.

Image Details:

Messier 13 (M13), also known as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, is a globular cluster located in Hercules constellation.

Messier 13 is one of the brightest and best known globular clusters in the northern sky. The cluster has an apparent magnitude of 5.8 and lies at a distance of 22,200 light years, or 6,800 parsecs, from Earth. Its designation in the New General Catalogue is NGC 6205.