Jim Burnell's CCD Images - M53 Clicking on an image will display a high-resolution view.

 

Object: M53 (NGC5024)	Globular Cluster	Const.: Coma Berenices
Camera: QSI532	Scope: Tele Vue NP127is	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): L:R:G:B	Exposure: 16x1m:8x1m:8x1m:8x1m	blank
M53, globular cluster in Coma Berenices. It is a composite of a stack of 16 one-minute exposures taken through a luminance filter, and stacks of 8 one-minute exposures taken through red, green and blue filters. The exposures were acquired with a QSI532 CCD camera through a Tele Vue NP127is 5" f/5.2 apochromatic refractor. The images were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked, deconvolved, and a Sigmoid Scaling was applied and then they were color combined and auto-balanced with all processing performed using AIP4WIN V2. This image has been cropped from its original size of 2140x1460.

 

Object: M53 (NGC5024)	Globular Cluster	Const.: Coma Berenices
Camera: QSI532	Scope: Tele Vue NP127is	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): IR block	Exposure: 16x1m	blank
M53, globular cluster in Coma Berenices. It is a stack of 16 one minute exposures taken with a QSI532 CCD camera through a Tele Vue NP127is 5" f/5.2 apochromatic refractor. The images were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked, deconvolved, and a Sigmoid Scaling was applied with all processing performed using AIP4WIN V2. This image has been cropped from its original size of 2140x1460.

 

Object: M53 (NGC5024)	Globular Cluster	Const.: Coma Berenices
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Vixen R200SS	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): IR block	Exposure: 4x4m	TeleVue Paracorr
M53, globular cluster in Coma Berenices. It is a stack of 4 four minute exposures taken with an SXV-H9 CCD camera through a Vixen R200SS 8" f/4 Newtonian with a Paracorr. The images were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked, and a DDP was applied with all processing performed using AIP4WIN. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1392x1040.

 

Object: M53 (NGC5024)	Globular Cluster	Const.: Coma Berenices
Camera: HX916	Scope: AP130	Mount: AP1200GTO
Filter(s): IR block	Exposure: 11x60s	blank
M53, globular cluster in Coma Berenices. It is a stack of 11 one minute exposures using a 5" f/6 refractor. Image processing performed using AIP4WIN. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1300x1030.