I took this image of M 5 from Pearson College Observatory. Unfortunately it appears that this image suffers from soft focus. It was probably caused by the bad seeing that evening and/or a shift in the focus.
Date: May 14, 2010
Constellation: Serpens Caput
Location: Pearson College Observatory, BC
Optics: TeleVue NP-127is used at f/5.2
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Camera: SBIG ST-2000XM with CFW10 and LRGB Astrodon Filters
Binning: LRGB 1x1
Exposure Time: L 25x2m / R 5x5m / G 5x5m / B 5x5m (at -25C)
Processing: Light frames calibrated with dark and flat frames in ImagesPlus. Light frames normalized and combined using MinMax Excluded.