Got an M57 tonight

[anthony]

Hi Guys,

Found it difficult recently to get myself at the looking end of a telescope. Manged it tonight but then put a camera in the way. I reckoned the moon made everything too bright to do visual.

This is also my first proper image with my new (second hand!) SXV H9. It is also my first go at LRGB. It is 20x1min lum, 15x1min RGB. All at F10 in the lx200 8".

All aligned and averaged in maxim. Then a bit of a play in photoshop. Quite pleased really

[CELESCOPE]

Thats nice Anthony, glad to see you are on the LRGB as well hehehhe , well you have the colour balance very nice there ,, and should be well pleased with that one , being at F10 does show some star movement, i would love to see you using a faster f ratio, by the looks of things ,you could turn out some very nice emission nebula , but the moon does play havoc with the colour data . not to bad for planatery DSOs ,but hard going on emission.

GREAT START

Rog

[geppetto]

You got to grips with the new camera on that one

Very nice colour and detail.

Is that a faint fuzzy below and to the right of M57?

[Kain]

Mate! Thats awsome!

Nailed the central star with ease!

Kain

[Rob]

Thats a great image.. nice colour.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Fab. picture, colour just right, focus spot on etc. Keep 'em coming.

Captain Chaos

[MartinB]

2 stars in the centre so you're doing especially well. Colour is spot on. Good work Anthony esp with the moon up

[anthony]

Cheers Guys,

Hey Rog - I'm aiming for that NGC896 that you have recently done justice to. That's a nice target and one I'd like to have a go at too

Anthony

[CELESCOPE]

Go for it Anthony, you will have to have a wider field though, no good at f10, possible at about f3.3, the core is fairly bright , the outer part is very faint , but not to bad a target ,

good luck , hope the weather holds for it

Rog

[FLO]

Nice one Anthony

Is that a faint fuzzy below and to the right of M57?

That ones got me puzzled :scratch:

I am not aware of anything that close to the Ring nebula....

[anthony]

Hi Rog,

I have a refractor option as well. Any expereince doing this one with a Ha filter. At present Cassiopoea sits above a street light in the early evening.

Hi Steve,

Yes! There is a little fainly fuzzy object in that area - a little galaxy. Some well processed and deep ring nebulae shots show it quite well.

I don't have a clue what it's name or title is.

Anthony

[russ]

Anthony, that's a beautiful image......superb colour and the detail is fantastic. Can't beat a good close of M57 and this is a good image!!!!

Russ

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Had a play by adding my attempt for the structure to Anthony's for the colour, hope you don't mind.

Captain Chaos

[G1ZmO]

Not sure if the orientation is right but could the faint fuzzy be PGC62532?

http://www.paulstephen.com/images/astronomy/M57PGC62532.jpg

[anthony]

Orientation is right for that to be the faint fuzzy. I have seen it on deeper pictures that this one and it is a nice little galaxy.

Hey CC - that edit looks good!

Anthony

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Thanks mate, wasn't sure if I was pushing things too far.

Captain Chaos