This image was taken at the 32-inch telescope by graduate student Stephen Davis during twilight before a run of scientific observations.. This is a composite of three individual monochromatic CCD camera images taken through red, green and blue filters. The images were combined using the Mira A/P image processing program.. The 8 arc-minute square view shows a 60 light year square of space at the 25,000 light year distance of the cluster
M13 is a cluster of several hundred thousand stars that have been orbiting
a common center of mass for several billion years, achieving a "bell
shaped" statisitical distribution in their arrangment--note this symmetry.
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