M57 The Ring Nebula

[Carl O Beirnes]

Hi All,

Here is an image taken over a couple months because of the weather M57 The Ring Nebula is a very difficult nebula to process next time I will pick something a little bit easer.

Image taken on July & August through a William Optics FLT-110 Triplet APO refractor Atik 16Hr cdd camera. Guided with a Celestron 80ED And Sac 4.2 CCD camera with PhD guiding software On a CGE mount. Processed in Images Plus V3.5 and Photoshop CS2 exposures where L+HA (RGB) 60:60:60:60

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Carl

[brianb]

The Ring Nebula is a very difficult nebula to process

Well, you seem to have done a wonderful job!

I can't remember seeing the small spiral galaxy a few ring diameters to the top left before!

[John9929]

Carl, that's a superb image! You have picked up the outer shell of M57 as well.
As well as that faint galaxy (IC 1296) at about mag 14, and rarely seen in "amateur"
images, I can pick up another five galaxies, at least, in the whole image and there
could be even more. It's a great image

[Paul]

Carl that's an absolutely superb image - setting a standard for the rest of us to aspire to!

It also illustrates a point that it took me a while to get - you don't have to do DSOs all on one night!

Clear skies,

Paul.

[martinastro]

Fully agree with all the above comments. That is a superb and inspiring image. Theouter shell is spectacular and so is the faint galaxy. Excellent work!

[dogstar]

Carl looks like you've got the hang of the new scope that's a fab image.
If you get a chance will you send me an image of the atic attached to the
110mm thanks. 

[Carl O Beirnes]

Thanks for all your comments lads. I'm looking forward to the dark nights and giving this scope a hard nights work. I also forgot to say thanks to Dave Grennan for helping me to process this image

[Roman White]

It is very good image, Carl.  I see how much work it needed to process.