M13

	Globular Cluster NGC 6205 Hercules 16H 41.7m +36° 28' Magnitude: 5.8 Size: 16.6' Distance: 25,100 light-years

	Skill Level M13 is easy to find and easy to capture. It is in reach of almost any combination of telescope and camera.

	Best Month Summer is the ideal time to capture this object. You will find M13 high in the sky during July.

$Refractors$	Recommended Equipment Almost any telescope is appropriate for M13—it is bright enough high focal-ratio SCTs and it is large enough for small refractors. A small refractor will show a brilliant globe floating in the blackness of space. With sufficient exposure time, you might be able to capture the galaxy NGC 6207 in the same field. A long-focal-length SCT will resolve hundreds of stars in M13's core. The cluster will look like a teaming metropolis of stars. As always, a rich-field Newtonian is a good compromise.

	Image Stats Meade 8" SN LXD75 Meade DSI Pro III Meade RGB + IR filters RGB at 40:40:54 minutes respectively. 2-minute subs. Good transparency 26 June 2009 San Mateo, CA See Also M13 (April 2005)

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