M53 (NGC 5024) Com galaxy Difficulty level
2Date of observation: 2000/04/09 02:58
Observing site: Makinoto
Transparency/seeing/sky darkness: 3/4/4
Instruments: 32cmDB with XL14 at 110x
Width of field: 0.6‹
This is a globular cluster southeast of Mel111 in Coma Berenices. It is fairly large and even at 110x it is finely resolved. This is a beautiful globular cluster with individual stars appearing as pinpoints.
The core shows even brightness and stars are well resolved to the center. North of the center there is a double, but they do not seem to belong to the cluster. The outlying regions in the northern half show
scattered faint stars. The southern nebulosity does not show this.