• NGC 5904 or Messier 5 in Serpens
    • M5
    M5 in Serpens
  • NGC 5904, M5, in Serpens
  • is a globular cluster with wide spaced arcs of stars.
  • Hover over the picture for an annotated version
  • Date:  11 May 2022
  • FOV:  cropped to 60' × 40'; the angular size of M5 is about 23'
  • Telescope:  Stellarvue SVX102T + SFFX-1 (714mm, f/7)
  • Guiding:  ZWO ASI120MM mini mono guide camera,
  • Stellarvue F050G 50mm guide scope
  • Computer:  ASIair pro Raspberry Pi
  • Mount:  iOptron CEM40
  • Camera:  ZWO ASI071MC Pro Cooled (-10°C) Color CMOS with gain 240
  • Pixel size:  4.78 μm
  • Resolution:  1.337 arcsec/pixel
  • Filter:  Baader Light Pollution Moonglow filter with IR cut
  • Stacking:  Seventeen 240 second frames using Deep Sky Stacker
  • Total Time:  1 hour 8 minutes
  • Processing:  Pixinsight – SPCC, DBE, SPCC, BlurXT, NoiseXT, Mask, GHS,
  • PMath add Mask + GHS, HDR6, Sat, DynCrop, Scale
  • Location:  Darling Hill Observatory near Vesper, NY