Observation by Mark Fairfax: Messier 5 - Rose Cluster

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Mark Fairfax

Observer

Mark Fairfax

Observed

2026 May 12 - 00:06

Uploaded

2026 May 12 - 19:21

Objects

Equipment

Celestron Origin v2

Exposure

370 secs (37x10s)

Location

Nottinghamshire

Target name

Messier 5 - Rose Cluster

Title

Messier 5 - Rose Cluster

About this image

A late observing session as not too many nights left that’ll be properly dark before the Summer. Globular cluster M5 in Serpens with the rotating variable star 5 Serpentis (below & left) which is a wide binary star system.

(Bortle 5-6 with average seeing)

Files associated with this observation

M5_MF12052026.jpeg (8.8 MB)

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