Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 858  ·  M 53  ·  NGC 5024  ·  NGC 5053
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M53 and NGC 5053 (final), Simon
M53 and NGC 5053 (final)
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M53 and NGC 5053 (final)

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M53 and NGC 5053 (final), Simon
M53 and NGC 5053 (final)
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M53 and NGC 5053 (final)

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This was taken on the same night as the recent M81 image, but it was after the weather had somewhat cleared. I say this because but what happened was that there was still high level cloud in the night sky, which meant all the subs I kept out of those taken, still had bad halos round the brightest stars, caused by that cloud. So in order to get round this problem, I did a very large crop and removed the offending stars and then processed the remaining FOV. It was not an ideal night at all, and the high level cloud still affected the whole FOV, of course, but I did what I could. Thanks everyone. Simon

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M53 and NGC 5053 (final), Simon