M13 teh great hercules star cluster [View all]

I picked up a new telescope last week and was able to get the new telescope out for a bit for its first test run despite the full moon and high humidity

This is M13 the great globular cluster of Hercules. The cluster is located about 22,000 light years away and is composed of hundreds of thousands of stars.. Globular clusters are found in most galaxies and are among the oldest objects in the universe. In the case of M13 its estimated to be 13 billion or so years old. Scientists dont really know how globular clusters form .

to the lower left of M13 is a small smudge that is teh galaxy NGC 6207. it about 30 million light years away. But there are a lot more galaxies in this photo most of which look like stars. the second photo has them labled. most of them are well over 100 million light years away

2.5 hours of exposure in my backyard