Having imaged the Dragons with the Redcat 51, I decided to revisit the mythical beasts with the Askar 65PHQ and the ASI1600mmPro with more integration time.
While Pixel peeping (yes, I'm one of those people) I noticed a couple of small structures to the lower left of the fov.
One of these I think is a tiny planetary nebula Henize 2-169.
But I also noticed a ring like structure (see arrow on Ha stack) and having a lot of trouble finding out what this is and does it have a name ( I know, me again asking "what's this called, what's that called...").
The B&W image is the Ha stack (drizzled) with just a simple STF and no other processing (other than cropping). It seems only be evident in the Ha although I did take a lot more Ha images than the other filters. The Ha colour appears to have been lost in the final image as I used and SHO palette.
Any info on this object would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: I contacted Marcel Drechsler who was very generous with his time to get back to me extremely quickly with the information I was looking for about this object.
Thanks again Marcel.
Dear Logan,
I'm very happy that you contacted me with your find.
I was able to identify the object.
It is "PCG 11", a ring of matter around a Wolf-Rayet star - so called "CircumStellar matter".
More information can be found here:
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/360/4/1439/1079208Cheers,
Marcel
PS: Look at this infrared image:
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