Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lyra (Lyr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1296  ·  M 57  ·  NGC 6720  ·  Ring Nebula
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The Ring Nebula - M57 - NGC 6720, David Huff
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The Ring Nebula - M57 - NGC 6720

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The Ring Nebula - M57 - NGC 6720

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The Ring Nebula (also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 and NGC 6720) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra.  Such a nebula is formed when a star, during the last stages of its evolution before becoming a white dwarf, expels a vast luminous envelope of ionized gas into the surrounding interstellar space.   The tiny white dot in the center of the nebula is the star’s hot core, called a white dwarf. M57 is about 2,000 light-years away.

This is another test image using the new QHYCCD QHY5III715C planetary / guide camera.  I want to show how to push the limits of the Celestron RASA 8 telescope using a camera with very small pixels.  This object was captured from by back yard in a suburb south of Chicago.  Bortle 8.5

Check out my summary of what I have done with the QHY5III715C camera on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CtT3R_OLhmC/

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The Ring Nebula - M57 - NGC 6720, David Huff