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M13 - The Great Cluster In Hercules31 viewsThis was my first ever deep sky image taking on the 1 June 2006, Balbriggan Co.Dublin. David Grennan and Myself were testing My new 14" OTA with a 6.3 focal reducer at the time .
M13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764. M13 is about 145 light-years in diameter, and it is composed of several hundred thousand stars, the brightest of which is the variable star V11 with an apparent magnitude of 11.95. M13 is 25,100 light-years away from Earth.
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M27 - The Dumbell Nebula25 viewsThis was taken on the same night as the M13 image on 1 June 2006,. This was a great night for me. Looking back at this image is funny even if it's not a master peace. It's when I started out in the world of Deep Sky imaging.
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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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