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Search results - "globular"
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Globular Cluster Messier 13113 viewsMessier 13 (M13/NGC6205) is a fabulous visual and photographic object visible in the Constellation of Hercules, and is visible most of the year from the northern hemisphere. It's one of the brightest globular clusters in the night sky at magnitude 5.8, and comprises of an estimate of 1 million stars at a distance of approximately 25,000 light years. Globular cluster M13 was selected in 1974 as target for one of the first radio messages addressed to possible extra-terrestrial intelligent races, and sent by he big radio telescope of the Arecibo Observatory. Nearby, about 40 arc minutes north-east of M13, is the faint (mag 11) galaxy NGC 6207
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Pipe Nebula Milkyway Region64 viewsThis is a shot of the 'Pipe Nebula' region in the southern part of the Constellation Ophiuchus. Although this area only rises 15 degress above the southern horizon, this is a fabulous region of the summer milkyway to observe, with a wealth of many Bernard dark nebula, starclusters and globular clusters.
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Pipe Nebula in Ophiuchus59 viewsThis is a shot of the 'Pipe Nebula' region in the southern part of the Constellation Ophiuchus. Although this area only rises 15 degress above the southern horizon, this is a fabulous region of the summer milkyway to observe, with a wealth of many Bernard dark nebula, starclusters and globular clusters.
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