Star clusters in Hercules. From a study made in June, 1877. Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
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Star clusters in Hercules. From a study made in June, 1877. Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
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That’s about right!
19th century augmented reality before Photoshop was invented.
@ ^ Lofty : Not so much augmented reality as reality sketched down on paper I think.
I was going to suggest this Hercules star cluster was Messier 13 (http://earthsky.org/clusters-nebulae-galaxies/m13-finest-globular-cluster-in-northern-skies ), the greatest globular in the northern sky but looking closer I’m thinking it may well actually be Messier 69 instead :
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/messier-monday-a-titan-in-a-teapot-m69-3a12018d059b
Oops! No. Can’t be M69 since that’s in Saggittarius, sorry. Mea culpa.
Maybe it’s Messier (M) 92 instead?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_92
Or maybe another cluster altogether although likely one of the brighter ones given the era and equipment they had back then.