M5 Rose Cluster

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celeron787
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M5 Rose Cluster

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Snuck in some imaging before moon rise.

Messier 5 (M5) is a bright globular cluster located in the northern constellation Serpens.
Beside M5 is the bright star 5 Serpentis, which is also a double star.
Managed to capture the double star in 5 Serpentis in some shots, but doesn't show up in the stacked image.

Annotated: https://nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/5505285

Sony A6400
William Optics RedCat 51 Petzval APO
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Star Adventurer Tripod

Singapore, Bortle 8
ISO400
Light Frames - 94 x 30secs (manually dithered in RA and DEC)
Dark Frames - 30 x 30secs
Flat Frames - 35
Bias Frames - 50

Deep Sky Stacker
StarTools - 50% bin, Autodev, Crop, Wipe, Super Structure, Decon, Sharp, Color, Super Structure, Denoise

ImageM5 Rose Cluster by Yun Chong Lim, on Flickr
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