first ever glob ngc - 5024 -M53

[Neo_uk]

HI,

This is my first ever image of a globular cluster which i found last night (still learning were all the cool stuff is) was having a mareish session after looking for m81 for about 45 Min's with no luck i just stated to slew the scope around in frustration when i happened to land on this fuzzy little fellow so i attached the camera and spent a while imaging it had to cross reference what it was in starry night pro because i didn't have a clue ! .My first though was it might have been m13 but snp pointed me in the direction of ngc-5024 - M53.

regards Chris

[MikeD]

Nice, well done.

Mike.

[LostNSpace]

Congrats Chris on your very 1st glob, nicely done........

Mark

[Cloudwatcher]

Excellent! Amazing what can be done with a small refractor.

Cheers

CW

[Paxo]

Well done Chris, nice picture. The hard part with gc's is not over-doing the core, you've got a good balance here though.

Steve..

[Cloudwatcher]

You will probable think I've overdone this with the sharpen tool in luminosity mode but in Hi-res there was such a wealth of stars visible I couldn't resist a dabble during the lunch hour.

It really is an excellent image just needs a more delicate touch.

Cheers

CW

(click as usual)

[jgs001]

Chris, That's a real nice cluster image.

[zhgutas]

Really lovely picture! You should be very happy with this. That's a smallish (only 3.3 diameter) and dimmish (7.7) glob compared to M13 (10 diameter and 5.9 mag) , therefore, I think you will be well pleased after you get a bash at Hercules cluster .Nice job again!

Marius

[centroid]

That's a pretty good result for just six minutes worth of subs Chris, well done!!

Dave

[Neo_uk]

Thanks for the comments im really pleased now .

cw nicely done i seem to have a knack for taking the photos but im a bit pants at the processing side as yet.

regards chris

[MartinB]

Great first glob Chris. Focus is the critical thing and you've done a good job.