M57 - Ring Nebula

[RichieJarvis]

I've been struggling for a while to get a decent image of M57 - my new C8 helped alot

Here it is:

Details are here: M57 Details

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,

Richie

[Psychobilly]

Getting better all the time RJ ... have you tried the "torch" yet?

Peter...

[Deneb]

Thats a huge improvement from the pics on your site.

[adamsp123]

Very nice Richie good one!

[RichieJarvis]

Thanks all - getting there - just need to figure out how to remove the star drift on the C8

Billy - yup, tried it - doesn't work - need to dig out your note about the tinfoil to see if I can get it working.

Thanks,

Richie

[johnh]

You have really pulled out the detail in m57 ring, great inner detail as well. JohnH.

[Milliways]

Very nice mate well done

[albedo0.39]

Really nice image - it seems to "glow" and has a 3D like image quality.

[Catanonia]

Great image there mate. Can you tell me how much you cropped or zoomed this as after one myself on my ED120 with 3x barlow.

Not great on scopes, so I am guessing this is 8inch reflector ??? What focal length and F Stop is it running at and how much zoom has been applied, if any, to the image ?

Love the colours, so good this, that I want to give it a go

[RichieJarvis]

Thanks all...

Its a Celestron C8 F/10 SCT - no barlow or zoom applied

Thanks,

Richie

[Paxo]

Magnificent image of M57 there Richie with a level of detail in the ring rarely seen. Your efforts collecting Ha and OIII data has been well rewarded.

Steve..

[ollypenrice]

'The Torch'...'Tin Foil'... Are you guys using the forum to foward secrets to the Russians?

The pic is very interesting with the outer stuff coming along nicely.

The moon is low over Moscow when the cows fly west.

Vladimir.