M13 - April 7th 2007

[Starman]

I've been doing so much Solar System stuff of late that I'd almost forgotten how to take deepsky images. Lots of faffing and cursing last night getting everything to work but eventually it did come together. Here's M13 taken with an ED80 and Canon 20Da DSLR camera.

[Black Shuck]

Stunning - very enjoyable 8)

Thanks

Bill£

[SteelRat]

There's just so much in that shot - flippin marvelous Pete 8)

[legion48]

I love it.

[GazOC]

Very sharp. NGC 6207 easy to spot as well.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

More inspirational stuff. Thanks for that Pete, I liked that a lot.

Captain Chaos

[moondog]

That's an excellent M13 Pete - one of the best I've seen. Great colour.

At last.....I'm not alone in using ImagesPlus !

8)

MD

[Astronut]

Superb image

I've opened up Redshift 5 for comparison and I see you've captured a galaxy to the bottom left - NGC 6207.

[edit]I see GazOC has noticed it - I wasn't even aware that a galaxy (NGC 6207) could be seen in the same FOV as M13 until now :oops: [/edit]

There's an even smaller and fainter one halfway between this and the top edge (in your image) of M13 called IC 4617. This one isn't in Redshift 5 nor is it shown in my Tirion SkyAtlas 2000 (maybe it's in Starry Night) so I had to google for information on that one It's not even listed in my Sky Catalogue 2000 Vol.2 book either but it's definately there in your image

Anyone care to check if IC 4617 is in Starry Night. If it is, I'll definately be investing in a copy for the simple reason it might have more DSO's in it's database than Redshift 5.

According to what I've found out so far IC 4617 is a very challenging visual object of magnitude 15.5 so a large scope is needed to see it. So far I've read a few reports of failed attempts and that it doesn't appear to be listed in most of the standard reference catalogues.

[lunator]

Pete

Excellent image.

The colours of the stars around M13 are amaing.

Cheers

Ian

[CELESCOPE]

Razor sharp Pete , excellent work as always mate

Rog

[barkis]

Oh! you beauty. That is a must stunning M13, and got to be the best I have seen from a ground based amateurs scope.

That really deserves a place on the cover of one of the mags.

I am saying no more, otherwise I will be drooling all over my keyboard.

Thanks a lot Pete, It's a scorcher.

Ron.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Anyone care to check if IC 4617 is in Starry Night. If it is, I'll definately be investing in a copy for the simple reason it might have more DSO's in it's database than Redshift 5.

Yes its there OK.

Captain Chaos

[Astronut]

Anyone care to check if IC 4617 is in Starry Night. If it is, I'll definately be investing in a copy for the simple reason it might have more DSO's in it's database than Redshift 5.

Yes its there OK.

Captain Chaos

Thanks CC

That's another item added to the ever growing list of things to buy then.

[Cloudgazer]

That's a beauty Pete.. good to see a DSO from ya.

Scott

[dazza1639]

Thats Amazing really nice.

Darren

[Tinkerbell]

Thats just downright gorgeous that is Pete