M57 with the ED80

[OXO]

Well it cleared up again last night after a cloudy day, not as good as the other night as the highclouds and haze/moonglow hampered views somewhat. Managed to get the Ring Neb though with the ED80 and Canon 300D, the following images are from a stack of 27x20 secs and 4x30secs. Using the ED80 is bit of a dream no false colour around the bright stars when iam normally processing blue hue's out .

Here's the Orignal Pic.

And M57 cropped.

Quite happy with the results hope you are too.

Regards

James

[russ]

excellent images James. The ED80 is a dream of a scope......an all time classic in the class of the original C8.

You've got a superb black background on those images, did you use a filter?

Great focus btw

Russ

[OXO]

Thanks Russ

I didnt use a filter i just processd the background light Pollution out in photoshop mainly using the black colour slider and making it more black also kept the Exposures shorter so they wouldnt pick up too much LP anything over 30 secs was washed out with moonglow i should of used the moonglow filter really .

It is a classic scope your not wrong there Russ, i was observing M13 and the Double cluster pin sharp stars a plenty.

James

[CELESCOPE]

Like that James . especially the first one a beautiful wide field, and surprised the cropped image is good as well , reduce the star sizes and bit in that one i think , make a :)better image ,

Rog

[OXO]

Cheers Rog,

Here's the pic again with the Stars Reduced you right it does look much better thanks

James

[geppetto]

Quite happy with the results hope you are too

Yep, very

That widefield is superb.

You can see why some folk (Kain ) keep missing it, its

a tiny object in a busy sky.

Nice one

[Greg]

Vwery nice James..

One of my fav objects..

[OXO]

Thank you Phil/Greg

Hope Kain gets to see el Ringo soon

[OXO]

Cheers Caz

Just peeping outta the window looks carp for tonight and i dont mean fish like :?, may try the Toucam next time out..

James

[Astroman]

I like the first one best. It shows the two stars on either side of M57, (Gamma on the left, (Sulaphat), and Beta on the right, (Sheliak)).

[Greg]

I agree AM ... The wide field shot gives it some perspective....

No 68 on to do list......Wide field astro photography!!

[Kain]

Looks great James

I like the wide angled shot, gives me some idea what I should see lol!

Kain

[OXO]

Thanks Guys,

Kain it's not too far off the sence of scale you will see in your 10" scope matey say with a 32mm or that 26mm 2" ep

[MartinB]

Great widefield James. Shows the ring very nicely.