M13


M13, the the Great Cluster in Hercules, photographed from OMSI's Hancock Field Station May, 2002.
12" F/10 LX200 SCT with F/6.7 Lumicon focal reducer
50 Minute Exposure 
Kodak Royal Gold 200 hypered at home at 50c, +3psi, 2hrs. 
Autoguided using SBIG STV CCD autoguider. 
Note: All other images taken the two nights showed that the guider was fighting the mount and produced egg shaped stars. M13 did not. I'm hoping it was balance or a prefered direction (if so I might be able to improve my guiding average with proper preperation).