Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  12.54  ·  404 Arsinoe  ·  42 Com)  ·  42 alf Com  ·  Diadem  ·  IC 858  ·  IC 859  ·  M 53  ·  NGC 5024  ·  NGC 5053  ·  PGC 1519802  ·  PGC 1521048  ·  PGC 1521328  ·  PGC 1521396  ·  PGC 1521576  ·  PGC 1522004  ·  PGC 1522342  ·  PGC 1522702  ·  PGC 1523101  ·  PGC 1524880  ·  PGC 1525109  ·  PGC 1525533  ·  PGC 1525907  ·  PGC 1526998  ·  PGC 1527739  ·  PGC 1527809  ·  PGC 1527870  ·  PGC 1528053  ·  PGC 1528517  ·  PGC 1528544  ·  And 96 more.
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M53 and NGC 5053, two very different globular clusters in Coma Berenices, darkdesertdome
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M53 and NGC 5053, two very different globular clusters in Coma Berenices

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M53 and NGC 5053, two very different globular clusters in Coma Berenices

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It may be galaxy season, but who doesn't like to see globular clusters, too?  The contrast between the morphology of these two GCs is interesting to me, with M53 being perfectly spherical and NGC 5053 being more irregular and kind of a clumpy mess, but charming at the same time.  I think they make a nice pair in a wide field view.

I had to toss out all but 3 of the green frames because of wind and clouds, but thankfully it still turned out okay after some careful denoising of the RGB data and adding luminance data.

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M53 and NGC 5053, two very different globular clusters in Coma Berenices, darkdesertdome