| M53 - Globular Cluster |
| Object: M53 (NGC 5024) - Globular Cluster M53 is a globular cluster in the Coma Berenices constellation. A distance of about 58,000 light years from the Solar system. Visual brightness 7.70 mag. Diameter 12.6 arcmin. Telelscope: LX200 10" @ f/4 Camera: Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 Guiding: SXV Guider through Stellarvue AT1010 @ f/6, piggybacked on LX200 Exposures: L = 12 X 90 sec (18 minutes) - Binned 2X2 Filters: Schuler Lum Comments: Taken from home. Seeing was poor. My first image with new SXV-H9 camera and first Globular Cluster. Guiding was difficult with sky conditions and working with new image scale. Used 2X2 binning. Combined and processed in Astroart. Finished in Photoshop 7.0. |