- Description: Globular cluster M13 in Hercules and galaxy NGC6207. M13 (aka NGC6205) is
the brightest globular cluster for us further up in the northern hemisphere. Glowing at magnitude
5.8 and about 2/3 the diameter of the moon, it is visible to the naked eye from a dark site. Galaxy NGC6207
requires a telescope, magnitude 11.9 and about 2x3 arc minutes.
- Film: Ektachrome 200 chilled with Canda Technologies dry-ice cold camera.
- Scope: 16" f4.5 Newtonian
- Exposure: 30 Minutes
- Location: Wilson Coulee Observatory, Alberta
- Date: May 15, 1988
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