• NGC 6205 or Messier 13 in Hercules
  • M13
    M13 in Hercules
  • NGC 6205, M13, The Great Hercules Globular.
  • Hover over the picture for an annotated version
  • Date:  11 September 2021
  • FOV:  cropped to 68' × 45'; the angular size of M13 is about 20'
  • Telescope:  Stellarvue SVX102T + SFFX-1 (714mm, f/7)
  • Guiding:  ZWO ASI120MM mini mono guide camera,
  • Stellarvue F050G 50mm guide scope
  • Computer:  ASIair pro Raspberry Pi
  • Mount:  iOptron CEM40
  • Camera:  ZWO ASI071MC Pro Cooled (0°C) Color CMOS with gain 180
  • Filter:  Baader Light Pollution Moonglow filter with IR cut
  • Stacking:  Twelve 300 second frames using Deep Sky Stacker
  • Total Time:  1 hour
  • Processing:  Pixinsight – SPCC, DBE, SPCC, BlurXT, NoiseXT, GHS, Mask,
  • PMath GHS + Mask, HDR4, Sat, DynCrop/Scale
  • Location:  Darling Hill Observatory near Vesper, NY