M53

Last night was the new moon, and the sky cleared off from midnight to around 3:30 a.m. Globular cluster M53, in the constellation Coma Berenices, was the last item I was able to image, around 3 a.m. What a beautiful sight, much better through the camera! (Please click on the image for a better view.)
This image is 160 6-second exposures (16 minutes total) stacked and stretched in Registax; its dead and hot pixels fixed in Paint; then cropped, sharpened, and flipped in HP Image Zone. Scope: Vixen R135S, at f/5.3. Camera: DSI Pro. Mount: LXD75. Location: The backyard.