The Ring Nebula M57 and IC 1296 (Corey Rueckheim)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Lyra (Lyr) · Contains: IC 1296 · M 57 · NGC 6720 · PGC 2017638 · PGC 2024204 · PGC 2813669 · PGC 2813726 · PGC 2813749 · PGC 2813775 · PGC 2813776 · PK063+13.1 · Ring nebula · Ring nebula in Lyra · TYC2642-1384-1 · TYC2642-1568-1 · TYC2642-1578-1 · TYC2642-1690-1 · TYC2642-172-1 · TYC2642-285-1 · TYC2642-299-1 · TYC2642-509-1 · TYC2642-84-1 · TYC2643-1347-1 · TYC2643-820-1 · TYC2643-823-1

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The Ring Nebula M57 and IC 1296

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I have always been intrigued by the interesting galaxy IC 1296 that is visible in many images of Messier 57. This is my attempt to get a good image of the galaxy, but to do so I had to overexpose M57 a bit. I suppose I could try some "Photoshop magic" (using GIMP) to make them look similar in brightness, but I haven't yet decided if I'm comfortable altering reality that drastically. Right now I'm much more interested in getting a reasonably accurate representation of things than I am in getting a pretty picture. I guess I'm hoping the pretty pictures will just happen periodically while I take the photos.

I find it to be an interesting exercise to try to imaging what these objects would look like up close. Would they look at all like our images?

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RA (center)	18h53m36s.197
RA (top/left)	18h54m39s.100
RA (top/right)	18h52m41s.273
RA (bottom/right)	18h52m33s.509
RA (bottom/left)	18h54m30s.903

Dec (center)	+33°01′14″.39
Dec (top/left)	+33°08′16″.84
Dec (top/right)	+33°10′44″.96
Dec (bottom/right)	+32°54′09″.45
Dec (bottom/left)	+32°51′41″.64

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