Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lyra (Lyr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1296  ·  M 57  ·  NGC 6720  ·  Ring nebula in Lyra
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M57: Strange LRGB + NB Mashup, Ken Sturrock
M57: Strange LRGB + NB Mashup
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M57: Strange LRGB + NB Mashup

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M57: Strange LRGB + NB Mashup, Ken Sturrock
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M57: Strange LRGB + NB Mashup

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Although I like the color saturated stars, I'm not really thrilled with this image. It was assembled from a grab bag of poorly-planned subframes in LRGB plus Ha, O-III, S-II and Near IR. The image only uses about 9.6 hours worth of exposure but I had a lot of trouble controlling the brightness of the nebula - despite several rounds of HDR Multiscale Transform. I even resorted to using curves in an attempt to back-down the blow-out by selectively reducing brightness.

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M57: Strange LRGB + NB Mashup, Ken Sturrock