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 This 15th
            magnitude globular cluster in Hercules is extremely dim, but
            contains a colorful assemblage of faint stars. The brightest
            stars in this globular are 17.6th magnitude and shows primarily
            the orange supergiants and yellow suns. A hint of the blue members
            is fleeting. I keep asking myself why I spent an hour on this
            one, but the results were worth it. 

            
There are a
            number of very faint galaxies in this field, the brightest being
            17th magnitude.

            
Seeing was terrible,
            and blurs were passing over the guidestar 30 arcseconds across!
            None the less most was taken care of with the extremely powerful
            deconvolution routines in PixInsight. 

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Cooling
Guider: SBIG ST4
Exposure:  RGB = 20:20:20
RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.05: 1.11 (G2V Calibration)
Filters:  AstroDon RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 10.5 arcsec (Maxim DL - 10min subframe), Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  15 C
CCD Temperature:  -20 C
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL,  Photoshop, PixInsight, RW Debloomer.
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