Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lyra (Lyr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1296  ·  M 57  ·  NGC 6720  ·  PK063+13.1  ·  Ring Nebula
M57 Ring Nebula, star-watcher.ch
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M57 Ring Nebula

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M57 Ring Nebula

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First light for my new Bahtinov mask. Finally the typical pattern is clearly visible in LiveView :-)

f/6.3 ISO800 60s, 2x drizzled

M57 is a planatery nebula. 2300 LY away from Earth. The nebula emissions contains expanding and glowing ionized gas, expelled from red giant stars in the last stage of evolution before they become white dwarfs (center star).

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