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M53 & NGC5053
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M53 & NGC5053 Globular Clusters in Coma Berenices
Date April 8-9, 2010
Exposure RGB 50:50:50 (Blue used for Luminance at 50%)
Camera STL11000M with Astronomk filters
Telescope/Mount ASA 10N f/3.6 on AP900GTO CPO3
Guiding External guide head with 50mm MiniBorg
Processing MaximDL, Photoshop CS3, FITS Liberator, GradientXterminator, AstroActions
Comments Warm with moderate seeing, some thin high clouds

 

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