The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

M13

By ebfaulkner6a at Sat, 06/27/2009 - 6:14am
M13

Taken with newly purchased Astro-tech 6" Ritchey Cretien Thursdy 25th June.
Messier described it as "a nebula which I am sure contains no star". Sir William Herschel used his great reflector and disclosed its true nature as "a most beautiful cluster of stars exceedingly compressed in the middle and very rich".

How's the RC6 performing

Submitted by marzulloj
on Sat, 06/27/2009 - 9:41am

How's the RC6 performing since you got it back?

AT6RC

Submitted by ebfaulkner6a
on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 8:16pm

It's working just great, can't wait to take it to the field on Route 72, possible Saturday July 4th. I just replaced the other image with this one after subtracting a dark frame.