M13, NGC 6205 the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

Matt Foyle

Derbyshire

FSQ 106ED
NEQ6 Pro
QHY9M
Badder 2″ filters
guided with Orion mini guider and QHY5M

Processed in Nebulosity V3.0 and CS5

I took this image after offering up the use of my equipment to the first person to give me a good target for the night. Robert Pickard of Alabama USA was the first person to submit a target in the online group. So given the difficulty we’re having with bright nights in the summer months I decided to give it a go for him. I did take a luminance layer but it makes the final image look softly focussed. I was surprised by Robert’s suggestion as I’d already imaged M13 earlier in the year and although now high thought it would fall too far west from my site. In fact I was able to track it for much longer,in a part of the sky I had thought was out of bounds and blocked by my own house (because my scope is right up against the back door). I learnt lots from a young visual astronomer and now have a bigger sky than I first thought.

The image is comprised of
6 x 300s RGB for a total of 1.5hrs

2013-07-16T00:00:00