# Hercules Globular Cluster on SpaceSphere

> A swarm of hundreds of thousands of ancient stars bound by their own gravity, often called the finest globular cluster of northern skies.

Canonical: https://spacesphere.sygnito.com/en/universe/hercules-cluster

Star cluster. The catalogue that supplied this record classes it more precisely as a globular cluster.

A swarm of hundreds of thousands of ancient stars bound by their own gravity, often called the finest globular cluster of northern skies.

## Facts

- **Position**: 250.42346, 36.46131 (Source: NASA Extragalactic Database)
- **Brightness**: about 5.8 (Source: SIMBAD Astronomical Database)
- **Apparent size**: about 16.5 arcminutes (Source: HEASARC mwsc table)
- **Constellation**: Hercules (Source: OpenNGC)

## Catalogue designations

NGC6205, M13, 2MASX J16414163+3627407, MWSC 2445

Source: OpenNGC

## Can you see it tonight?

The page works this out in the visitor's browser, from their own location, and the answer is a prediction rather than an observation. It is not part of this file.

## Sources

- This research has made use of the [NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database](https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.
- This research has made use of the [SIMBAD database](https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/), operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.
- This research has made use of data obtained through the [High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center](https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/) Online Service, provided by the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
- [OpenNGC](https://github.com/mattiaverga/OpenNGC), Mattia Verga, licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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