Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lyra (Lyr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1296  ·  M 57  ·  NGC 6720  ·  PK063+13.1  ·  Ring Nebula
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M57 Ring Nebula - Lyra - May 2022, Michael Broyles
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M57 Ring Nebula - Lyra - May 2022

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M57 Ring Nebula - Lyra - May 2022, Michael Broyles
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M57 Ring Nebula - Lyra - May 2022

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Finally got a chance to get out to my club's dark site last week where I captured this image of the Ring Nebula(M57).  This capture is much better than previous capture but I do wish I would have gotten a little more data.  I figured that since the target was so bright that a lot of data was not necessary, live and learn.    Since previous attempts at capturing M57 were always overexposed or over my PixInsight skills at the time; I capture 60s and 300s frames thinking I could HDR the results but this didn't work so I just integrated all the frames.

I also believe that I may have been able to reduce my exposure time to maybe 180s instead of the 300s.  Ohh look, that means I could have captured twice as many frames and gotten about same total l capture time, live and learn.

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M57 Ring Nebula - Lyra - May 2022, Michael Broyles