M13

"The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules"

Constellation- Hercules

Right Ascension: 16h 41m 53"

Declination: +36° 27' 35"

Distance: 22,800 light years

Visual Brightness: 5.8 mag

Apparent Dimension: 16.6 arc minutes

Image info:

Date imaged- June 7, 2004

Telescope- NexStar11 GPS @ f/7.04

Camera- ST-8XE NABG binned 2x2, -20C, autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.00

Integrations- Lum = 10 x 240 seconds, RGB = 5 x 240 seconds each

Processing- Flats and darks, aligning and average combining in CCDsoft Ver. 5.00. Color combined in AstroArt 2.0