M53 (NGC 5024), class V, in Coma Berenices
First light of my Artemis Art 4021 CCD camera - many thanks to my friends Liubomir Iliev and Valery Genkov (both of them professional astronomers) for their invaluable help |
  
Discovered 1775 by Johann Elert Bode.
| Right Ascension |
13:12.9 (h:m) |
| Declination |
+18:10 (deg:m) |
| Distance |
58 000 (ly) |
| Visual Brightness |
7.6 (mag) |
| Apparent Dimension |
13.0' |
FOV with my setup was 7 x 7 arcmin , that is why not entire star cluster was captured in this frame.
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| Optic(s) |
24" Zeiss Cassegrain @ f/12.5 |
| Mount: |
German Equatorial - Zeiss |
| Camera: |
Artemis Art 4021 - monochrome cooled CCD camera – 2048 x 2048 px ; 16x16 mm; 7.4 µm x 7.4 µm (FOV with this setup 7 x 7 arcmin) |
| Filters: |
Astronomics LRGB Set (RGB and IR cut), ATiK Filter Wheel |
| Dates/Times: |
9.03.2008 / 21:35 - 21:49 UT |
| Location: |
Observatory Belogradchik (BAS) - West BALKAN mountain |
| Exposure Details: |
Luminance (IR cut): 12 x 60 sec (1x1 binning); Total ExposureTime - 12 min (short exposures because of not guiding) |
More details: |
Dark frames only calibrated. The transparency 5/7 and the seeing 5/10 in that night was not so good. |
Guiding: |
No |
| Processing: |
ArtemisCapture / MaxIm DL / PhotoShop |
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