M13 The Great Cluster in Hercules

[Earl]

One of the Kings of Globulars.

10 x 5 Min ISO 1600

Im curious to what the blob is?

[blinky]

This is a background galaxy!

[russ]

Really nice capture. And the small galaxy is a 12th Magnitude edge on galaxy called NGC 6207. Very nice!

[Earl]

Humm, I was looking on stellarium and could not see anythign close, but it was a 2 in the morning LOL

I must say im disapointed now im looking at these images on this monitor at work as there is way more background noise than i get on my screen at home

[JamesF]

Could be that you don't have the necessary star data files installed in Stellarium?

NGC6207 is apparently magnitude 11.6, so it may not be in the default catalogues.

James

[shaunster]

You also need the nebula slider pushed way up until you see all the faint small fuzzies

[JamesF]

Yes, a quick check appears to indicate that you'd need catalogue 5 of 9 (magnitudes 10.5 to 12) installed to get this. It doesn't appear in my default installation which only includes up to catalogue 4.

James

[Earl]

ah cool, ill have a play i probably have them tunred off.

[jgs001]

Very nice capture Earl

[tiwar]

I was looking at this in my newt last night, awesome!!!

T x