Quick M57 Ring Nebula to eventually complete Messier Catalog (Brandon Tackett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Lyra (Lyr) · Contains: IC 1296 · M 57 · NGC 6720 · PK063+13.1 · Ring Nebula

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Quick M57 Ring Nebula to eventually complete Messier Catalog

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Quick M57 Ring Nebula to eventually complete Messier Catalog

I decided to quickly shoot this target a couple months ago while waiting for another target to get above 30 degrees. I originally tried to add a luminance layer, but was never satisfied to with how it layer with the RGB. To be honest, I had forgotten about the data and just now processed it as I was cleaning up some of my imaging folders. I am curious to use my asi 290 mm on this target with short sub frames and better aspect ratio in the future to try to bring out a little more detail.

M57 Ring Nebula is small planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra . A planetary nebula occurs when stars similar to the size of the Sun and slightly larger shed their outer layer through solar winds a leave behind a white dwarf star in their center. Difficult to calculate the actual distance to the nebula, it is thought to be around 2,300 light years away from earth. The ring measures 0.9 x 0.7 light years and the outer halo approximately 2.4 light years.

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Description: Mild Increase color saturation and boost of background luminance layer to bring out faint background galaxy.

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Astrometry.net job	3959466
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	18h53m34s.669
RA (top/left)	18h53m01s.214
RA (top/right)	18h53m03s.762
RA (bottom/right)	18h54m07s.978
RA (bottom/left)	18h54m05s.689

Dec (center)	+33°01′39″.87
Dec (top/left)	+33°10′34″.10
Dec (top/right)	+32°52′22″.60
Dec (bottom/right)	+32°52′45″.46
Dec (bottom/left)	+33°10′55″.66

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