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The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules is well placed

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The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (M13, NGC 6205; mag 5.8) will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 1 June it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.

From Cambridge , it is visible all night. It will become visible at around 21:40 (EST), 55° above your eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 00:42, 84° above your southern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight at around 03:41, 55° above your western horizon.

At a declination of 36°27'N, it is easiest to see from the northern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much south of 33°S.

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At magnitude 5.8, M13 is quite faint, and certainly not visible to the naked eye, but can be viewed through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of M13 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
M13 16h41m40s 36°27'N Hercules 5.8 0'00"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 2 Jun 2033

The sky on 2 June 2033
Sunrise
05:06
Sunset
20:14
Twilight ends
22:24
Twilight begins
02:57

5-day old moon
Waxing Crescent

28%

5 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:34 14:20 22:06
Venus 03:06 09:39 16:12
Moon 10:24 17:16 00:01
Mars 22:33 02:52 07:11
Jupiter 01:06 06:32 11:57
Saturn 06:53 14:26 21:59
All times shown in EDT.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

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© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

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42.38°N
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