M13 - 21.8.2015 at 02.00 Helsinki Observation number 41495

Visibility IV / V

Tero Hiekkalinna, Ursa (Helsinki)

There has been little night's sleep for more than a week. The third object of early autumn that I have photographed from my own yard. To my dismay, the M13 goes behind a big birch pretty soon after midnight at my location.

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Additional information

Observation target
- Deep space object
Designation
- M13
- Näyttävä

Constellation
- Hercules
Star clusters and asterisms
- Globular cluster
  
  Globular cluster is a ball-shaped group of thousand of stars. Typically it looks like a round fuzzy spot. With bigger instruments a part of the stars in the cluster can be seen as sepaterated.
  
  The globular cluster 47 Tucanae is located in Tucana. Image Arto Oksanen.
  
  The globular cluster M13 is in Hercules. Image Rauno Päivinen.
  
  The globular cluster M2 in Aquarius. Image Timo Inkinen.

Technical information

http://www.astrobin.com/205817/

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M13 - 21.8.2015 at 02.00 Helsinki Observation number 41495