M13 - The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

M13 - The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 at 2:35:14 PM · 2026/Astrophotography

A stunning deep-sky astrophotography image of Messier 13, one of the brightest and most prominent globular clusters visible from the Northern Hemisphere. The cluster's dense core blazes brilliantly at the center, with thousands of individual stars resolving outward in a spherical distribution against the dark background of space. Captured using a TMB-92 APO telescope with a monochrome ZWO ASI533MM Pro camera through Luminance, Red, Green, and Blue filters, with 42 minutes of total integration time. The image was processed using Python and Syqon Starless AI for star removal and processing techniques.

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