Derby and District Astronomical Society
Messier 53 (NGC 5024)
Globular Cluster in Coma Berenices
RA 13h 12m 54s Dec +18° 10' 00"
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This image of M53 was captured by Mike Lancaster on the 23rd April 2026. The image comprises 140 x 15 second exposures taken using an Altair Hypercam 26C at 300 gain (plus darks, flats and flat darks), through an Orion Optics UK AG12 Astrograph mounted on an EQ8 mount. A 0.95x Wynne Corrector and IDAS LPS-D3 filter were also employed. No guiding was required due to the relatively short exposures. Images were acquired using SharpCap, and the processing was entirely performed in PixInsight. Image Credit: Mike Lancaster.
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Adrian Brown took the following image of the globular cluster M53 in Coma Berenices on the 10th April 2005. He used a Celestron C11 at F3.3 and an ATK-1C camera. The image is a composite of 8 thirty second exposures stacked in K3CCD Tools and the image was dark frame adjusted to remove 'hot' pixels. Final processing was performed in Photoshop to convert the image to greyscale and remove some background sky glow. Image Credit: Adrian Brown. |
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