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These are CCD images of the Ring Nebula (M57) in Lyra, taken by member Hank Adams from West Orange, NJ through his CG-11 telescope. The monochrome image was posted in October 1999. Hank exposed 20 images for 6 seconds each, for a total of 2 minutes. He used Track and Accumulate mode, guiding on the 12th magnitude star just to the left (East) of the ring.
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The Pointers indicate IC1296, a 15th magnitude galaxy. It is very faintly
seen here.
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The thumbnail of IC1296 above was dragged out of a 10 minute exposure like the
preceding. Quoting NGC: "extremely faint, pretty small in angular size,
irregular round, 4' preceding M57"
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The color image was made by Hank on August 10, 2005 using his SBIG ST8XE CCD camera. It is a composite of red, green, blue exposures of 150 seconds each. Note the faint blue and red stars. |
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Maintained by Ray Shapp Page last updated 08/24/2005 |