M53 Globular Cluster
M53 Globular Cluster by Mark Griffith

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Mark Griffith
Swindon, Wiltshire. UK
Celestron C11 Sct, Skywatcher NEQ6 pro mount,Atik 383L+ camera, motorised filter wheel and Astronomik filters.
Moon starting to get in the way this week. All the galaxies were too near but this cluster was quite a distant away from the moon.
Close to the globular cluster messier 3 so overlooked by imagers. Big and bright enough for a nice image.
LRGB image with 5 hours and 12 minutes of data. 68 x Lum 22 x Red 24 x Green 21 x Blue 2.5 minute exposures.
2014-04-08T00:00:00