Deep M57 showing outer shell

Here is a stack of 11 images of M57 - six are 5-minute exposures, and five are 15-minute exposures. I summed the exposures so as to not have to worry about the different exposure lengths. This doesn't quite show all of the outer shells; there are some dim ones even further out than this.

Another nice side effect was a lot more detail on the galaxy IC1296 to the upper right. A few more distant galaxies can also be seen. I used two layers for this image, one with just M57 in it and the other with the background. Stars got kind of bloated with the extreme stretch required to show the outer shells, so I used Photoshop's Minimum filter to trim them down to size.

Taken with the C14/ST-10XME/Paramount ME remote setup in New Mexico.

Ron Wodaski
http://www.newastro.com/remote

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Ron, that's really cool. Kind of gives me the impression of a jellyfish.

Well done.

macnmotion

Ron,

I have never seen galaxy IC1296 in such detail. Well done.

Steven

Very well done, Ron!
I have seen several shots showing the outer shell, but most of them with a narrowband filter like H-alpha or O-beta.
With your setup and dark skies it would be very interesting to get a filtered deep shot on that object.

At my site that would be absolutely impossible with only mag 5 sky in best case.

Johannes

That is one SWEET PIC Ron!
Beautiful detail, specially on the faint area... not many people get to show it this way...


Thanks for sharing!


Ivan