May 7, 2011br/Scope - LX50 10"br/Guide Scope - Celestron 80mm + SSAGbr/Mount - CGEMbr/Camera - Star Shoot Pro 2.0br/Exposure - 9 x 10 sec. 6 darks, master flats and master dark flats. Used #s 2,3,4,5,6,9.br/Processing - High Pass Sharpen, Clarify.br/Subject - strongMessier 53/strong (also known as emM53/em, or emNGC 5024./em) is a a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular_cluster"; target="_blank"globular cluster/a in the Coma Berenices constellation. It was discovered by a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Elert_Bode"; target="_blank"Johann Elert Bode/a in a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775"; target="_blank"1775/a. M53 is one of the more outlying globular clusters, being about 60,000 light-years away from the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center"; target="_blank"Galactic Center/a, and almost the same distance (about 58,000 light-years) from the Solar system.br/Apparent Magnitude: +8.33