Messier 57: RASA8 & ASI294MC Pro
Kedron, Queensland - 30 May 2020Messier 57 captured using a RASA8 telescope & ASI294MC Pro colour camera
- Telescope: RASA8
- Camera: ASI294MC Pro
- Mount: CEM40
- Alignment: ASIair
- Guiding: ASIair
- Image: 64 * 30 sec subs
- Gain: 120
- Temp: 0 Deg C
- Processing: AstroPixel Processor – lights, darks, flats, dark flats
- Bortle Class 7 site
- Location: Kedron Brisbane Queensland
- Date: 30/5/2020
The Ring Nebula, M57 is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra. Such objects are formed when a shell of ionized gas is expelled into the surrounding interstellar medium by a star at in the last stages of its evolution before becoming a white dwarf.Wikipedia