[ETL]

I took this image last weekend of the Great Globular Star Cluster in the Constellation Hercules. It's located approximately 25,000 light years from earth, and has several hundred thousand suns or stars.

Very nice shot of M13! You must know your stuff.

Hard to believe how far away some of these things are. 25,000 light years works out to about 25,000 x 5.9 trillion miles (one light year = 5.9 trillion miles). If you could plant yourself within that cluster instantaneously and then look back at Earth, you would actually see the Earth as it appeared during the last ice age. That is, if there was a telescope so powerful. I know, a lot of 'ifs' there.

Here's a website I'm sure you will appreciate:
http://www.photomeeting.de/astromeeting/_index.htm

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“...you would actually see the Earth as it appeared during the last ice age.”

Sorry, you wouldn't even see good ol’ Sol that long ago!

[dragnet2]

Very nice shot of M13! You must know your stuff.

Thank you.

No formal education, learned all on my own. We even built our own observatory to house the instrument.

Hard to believe how far away some of these things are. 25,000 light years works out to about 25,000 x 5.9 trillion miles (one light year = 5.9 trillion miles). If you could plant yourself within that cluster instantaneously and then look back at Earth, you would actually see the Earth as it appeared during the last ice age. That is, if there was a telescope so powerful. I know, a lot of 'ifs' there.

You bet.

After I processed the shot, we thought about how it would be living on a planet orbiting one of those stars on the outer edge of that cluster.

Can you imagine the view at night? WOW!

Thanks for the link!! I'll check it out.