Category: Messier
A catalogue of star clusters, nebulae and galaxies originally published by Charles Messier in 1774. Although not particularly extensive (there are 110 Messier objects, as compared with 7,840 in the New General Catalogue) the Messier catalogue numbers (such as M1 for the Crab Nebula, or M42 for the Orion Nebula) are still in wide use.
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M13 – Hercules Cluster
This is a reprocess of the previous M13 image, I decided to try a different technique for processing and I think it’s given a much better output. The key things that I like from this reprocess is that you can see both the dark propeller slightly left of center, and the bright cross, just to the right of the propeller. The colours also pop much more than the original edit.
