# M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

**URL:** <https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402>\
**Category:** Poststructural Pub\
**Created:** [May 18, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402 "2007-05-18T04:07:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Denny](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/denny/32/570_2.png) [@Denny](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Denny)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402/1 "2007-05-18T04:07:54Z")

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[![](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0705/m13_tvdavis_c720.jpg)](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070518.html)

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**Author:** ![Coffee](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/coffee/32/1261_2.png) [@Coffee](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Coffee)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402/2 "2007-05-18T22:04:21Z")

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If Hercules has a great globular cluster, well, that’s kind of his own personal problem isn’t it? The rest of us don’t need to know that.

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**Author:** ![Denny](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/denny/32/570_2.png) [@Denny](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Denny)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402/3 "2007-05-18T22:53:31Z")

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this is the pub, innit?

where better ta talk about stuff ya don’t need to know?

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**Author:** ![Aanvil](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/aanvil/32/1186_2.png) [@Aanvil](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Aanvil)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402/4 "2007-05-19T00:36:31Z")

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> [@Cofaidh](#):
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> If Hercules has a great globular cluster, well, that’s kind of his own personal problem isn’t it? The rest of us don’t need to know that.

Yeah… he should just go down pick up some salve and be done with it.

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**Author:** ![Denny](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/denny/32/570_2.png) [@Denny](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Denny)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402/5 "2007-05-19T01:52:38Z")

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med alert 😲

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**Author:** ![Rod\_Sprague](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/rod_sprague/32/191_2.png) [@Rod\_Sprague](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Rod_Sprague)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402/6 "2007-05-19T04:40:56Z")

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Sounds like cussing, to me. “Oh great globular cluster!”

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**Author:** ![brewerpaul](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/brewerpaul/32/50_2.png) [@brewerpaul](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/brewerpaul)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:07pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402/7 "2007-05-19T12:07:41Z")

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Back when I had a telescope, M13 was one of my favorite deep sky objects to view. Just lovely.

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**Author:** ![Coffee](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/coffee/32/1261_2.png) [@Coffee](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Coffee)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402/8 "2007-05-19T18:57:24Z")

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M9 and M16 I’ve got, but I never qualified on the M13.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Lee](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/brian_lee/32/20_2.png) [@Brian\_Lee](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Brian_Lee)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402/9 "2007-05-19T20:25:47Z")

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13 is a relatively easy target if the seeing is right. Also M27, M31 and M42. All can be picked up in even modest binoculars or small refractors.

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**Author:** ![Coffee](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/coffee/32/1261_2.png) [@Coffee](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Coffee)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/m13-the-great-globular-cluster-in-hercules/47402/10 "2007-05-19T23:11:15Z")

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I’m sorry. That was a gun joke, and not even a particularily good one.