The Deep Photographic Guide to the
Constellations
The constellation of the month
JUNE
Hercules
Mark the Deep Sky Objects
Names:
Latin: Hercules (Her)
| English: | Kneeling Man
| Spanish: | Hércules
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| German: | Herkules
| French: | Hercule
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In mid of june Hercules culminates at about 23 h (11 pm) local time.
For observers on the 10th to the 50th geographic latitude north
it reaches the zenit, the point just above you.
Its appearence is quite faint, but the
central trapeze is not so hard to find.
In Hercules is the brightest
Globular Star Cluster of the northern
hemisphere: M 13. With a visual magnitude of 5.7 it can be seen already
by naked eye as a faint object. A small amateurs telescope already offers
the dense stellar nature of M 13.
The brightest star Alpha Herculis (3.1 mag) is out of our field
of view just below the left image corner.
© all photographs taken by
Till Credner and
Sven Kohle
