Object: Globular cluster MESSIER 53             Constell: COM

RA: 13h 12.9m           Decl: +18° 10'          Epoch: 2000
Mag: 7.2m               Size: 12.6'             Type: 5

Observer: Jere Kahanpää
Obs. place: Hartola, Finland
Date/Time: 12./13.4.1994, 23.15

Telescope: N 205/1000
Magn: 133x              Filter:
Field: 22'              NE Lim.mag: 6.0m
Background sky: 2       Seeing: 2 
Weather: A bit below 0 °C, no Moon, faint aurora glow N. 

Brightness:  2          Alt:    
Description: A bright and quite stronly concentrated globular
cluster. Grainy with 40x and about 100 stars are resolved with
133x. Size about 4'. Round.