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M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules
The Messier Ten Minute Challenge
M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules Discovered by Halley in 1714, M13 (NGC 6205) is one of the most prominent and best known globulars in the northern hemisphere. At a distance of 25,100 light years it is 145 light years across. http://www.martin-nicholson.info/ten...llenge/m13.htm Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England. My website is at http://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm My informal Astronomical Blog is at http://ukastronomy.livejournal.com/ |
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M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules
On Apr 7, 2:48 am, ukastronomy
wrote: The Messier Ten Minute Challenge M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules Discovered by Halley in 1714, M13 (NGC 6205) is one of the most prominent and best known globulars in the northern hemisphere. At a distance of 25,100 light years it is 145 light years across. http://www.martin-nicholson.info/ten...llenge/m13.htm Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England. My website is athttp://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm My informal Astronomical Blog is athttp://ukastronomy.livejournal.com/ Hey, moron, you ever tried actually looking at these? They're impressive sights even in small finderscopes some of them, and even easier to find, although as you're incapable of doing anything yourself you can find them with most goto mounts or hooking up computer based planetaria packages to your telescope. In fact most Galactic globular clusters are quite crap in either photographs or electronic images in comparison to their visual delight. M13 is especially rewarding as switching between averted and direct vision at low powers reveal two quite different seeming objects. Always one of the easiest beginner ones, along with not too very distant M57, when teaching beginners the earliest rudiments of starhopping. Starhopping is probably illegal nowadays though, in favour of helping fools with too much money pointing rentascopes and pretending they know something in order to think they look good and are clever. |
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M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules
"advicegiven" wrote in message ... On Apr 7, 2:48 am, ukastronomy wrote: The Messier Ten Minute Challenge M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules Discovered by Halley in 1714, M13 (NGC 6205) is one of the most prominent and best known globulars in the northern hemisphere. At a distance of 25,100 light years it is 145 light years across. http://www.martin-nicholson.info/ten...llenge/m13.htm Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England. My website is athttp://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm My informal Astronomical Blog is athttp://ukastronomy.livejournal.com/ Hey, moron, you ever tried actually looking at these? They're impressive sights even in small finderscopes some of them, and even easier to find, although as you're incapable of doing anything yourself you can find them with most goto mounts or hooking up computer based planetaria packages to your telescope. In fact most Galactic globular clusters are quite crap in either photographs or electronic images in comparison to their visual delight. M13 is especially rewarding as switching between averted and direct vision at low powers reveal two quite different seeming objects. Always one of the easiest beginner ones, along with not too very distant M57, when teaching beginners the earliest rudiments of starhopping. Starhopping is probably illegal nowadays though, in favour of helping fools with too much money pointing rentascopes and pretending they know something in order to think they look good and are clever. Why not contribute something positive for a change. |
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M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules
On Apr 7, 11:24 pm, "OG" wrote:
"advicegiven" wrote in message ... On Apr 7, 2:48 am, ukastronomy wrote: The Messier Ten Minute Challenge M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules Discovered by Halley in 1714, M13 (NGC 6205) is one of the most prominent and best known globulars in the northern hemisphere. At a distance of 25,100 light years it is 145 light years across. http://www.martin-nicholson.info/ten...llenge/m13.htm Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England. My website is athttp://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm My informal Astronomical Blog is athttp://ukastronomy.livejournal.com/ Hey, moron, you ever tried actually looking at these? They're impressive sights even in small finderscopes some of them, and even easier to find, although as you're incapable of doing anything yourself you can find them with most goto mounts or hooking up computer based planetaria packages to your telescope. In fact most Galactic globular clusters are quite crap in either photographs or electronic images in comparison to their visual delight. M13 is especially rewarding as switching between averted and direct vision at low powers reveal two quite different seeming objects. Always one of the easiest beginner ones, along with not too very distant M57, when teaching beginners the earliest rudiments of starhopping. Starhopping is probably illegal nowadays though, in favour of helping fools with too much money pointing rentascopes and pretending they know something in order to think they look good and are clever. Why not contribute something positive for a change. Because a lot of people have had lies and half truths told about them by Nicholson on his blogs and in these groups, quietly and cowardly, behind their backs, for a long time. So some of use have decided to do similar for a short while. Except we don't have to lie or make up friends or use tricks and false statements. And what we are doing is very positive, as this charlatan has been lying and cheating and deceiving for a long time. And attacking innocent people who have tried to help him. Now, if you want something positive, this is how a blog is done, and how a rent-a-scope can be used for fun, without trying to show off and claim marvellous things or to being clever http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2008/...in-cygnus.html See how those people do it. Simple and effective and not spammed throughout the known usenet universe, with details of where they obtained the information, what it is about, and full details of equiptment used, without pretending they had done anything particularly glorious or clever, just a simple report from someone using the same rental scopes nutterson uses. |
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M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules
advicegiven wrote in
: particularly glorious or clever, just a simple report from someone using the same rental scopes nutterson uses. Is it really necessary to shoot the ambulance? :-) |
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