M53 in Coma Berenices
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Scope: C8  f/7.1,  Location: Del Mar, CA   8 May 2007  Camera: Artemis285

Exposure: 15 x 240 sec  Luminance with IR Block Filter (bin 1x1); 8 x 120 sec RGB (2x2 bin)

Processing: Images were captured Artemis Capture (as FITs). Aligned/stacked in Registax 4 and saved as FITS. Luminance and Color channels were scaled and rough color balanced in Astroart. Central Gradient removal was performed in Astroart. Channels were co-registered in Astroart. The 240 sec IR block exposures were used as the main luminance construction with level adjustments and curves to bring out dim stars. Final LRGB combine was done in Photoshop.   Final touches were done in Photoshop.  PixInsight LE SGBNR was used for background noise reduction. Final Image size is approximately 1392x1044.

North is up in this image. M53 is a globular cluster in the Constellation of Coma Berenices. It is one of the more outlying globular clusters in our Milky Way galaxy. It is  about 60,000 light years distant from Earth. A close by neighbor is another globular cluster catalogued as NGC5053.  This image of M53 replaces and earlier image that can be seen in the Archives here .  Horizontal FOV is 20'

Image center is approximately - Equatorial 2000: RA: 13h 12m 55s Dec: +18°10'11"

 

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