Here are a couple of images of M53. I quite like the good one, given the low altitiyde (about 22 degrees) and strong moonlight last night. The poor one was the night before, just posted for comparison. The difference?
A $3.15 piece of kit assembled courtesy of Bunnings to lock the focus on the LX200 Classic.
The decent image is 21 x 3 min subs, ISO 800