M57 -- waiting for the clouds to go...

Started by tvdavis, 07/25/2005 04:27AM

Posted 07/25/2005 04:27AM | Edited 07/25/2005 04:32AM Opening Post

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I've been wanting to get some Ha images in Cygnus, but the clouds have been not cooperating so I took a few quick and dirty shots of M57. My short focal length is not best for this object, but I had to shoot something!!

AP 155 EDF f/7
ST-10XME
LRGB 36:10:10:12 min

Despite the short imaging time I even captured a little of the spiral galaxy IC1296 -- seen here just "up" from M57. Aren't CCD's amazing!

Tom

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Posted 07/25/2005 04:37AM #1

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Very nice Thomas! I quite enjoyed the wider field on this one. I gives the sense that it is just floating out there. Thanks for the look.

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Posted 07/27/2005 01:09PM #2

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Very nice Wide-Field shot Thomas... gives M57 a totally different view... 8)
Thanks for sharing!

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