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

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Ring Nebula, David Krause
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Ring Nebula

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The Ring Nebula with Galaxy IC 1296

Earlier this year we purchased C8 (Nexstar 8SE OTA only) off Facebook Marketplace in immaculate condition for a killer price. An incredible find! We’ve been slowly acquiring the accessories needed to get it imaging and now have mostly everything needed. We already had a mount and camera: our EQ6-R Pro and RisingCam IMX571 OSC. We chose the Ring Nebula (M57) as the test target for full imaging runs, mainly because it’s in the sky all night right now.

The Ring Nebula is harder to process than we thought. There’s incredible dynamic range that requires “fine tuning” to bring out the details within it. That was a learning experience in itself… but here’s what we came up with. Excited to image more with the C8.

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