M92 – the other Hercules Cluster
M92, originally uploaded by ThinkingCamera.
I made this image on a lovely late summer evening (28 August 2010) when the sky was extremely transparent, though the moon was rising and making the background brighter than I wanted.
This is M92: a globular cluster in Hercules. It is smaller than the great cluster (M13) but roughly the same distance from us, so is actually more compact. I like the way this image has caught star colour, but you can see the effect that fairly strong wind was having by vibrating the telescope.
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