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Ring Nebula

Taken on 28 May 2017 with ZWO ASI224 MC Camera, connected to Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope. Video was captured in SharpCap, processed in Registax 6 and touched-up in PhotoShop.

 

It is a planetary nebula found in northern constellation of Lyra. Such objects are formed when a shell of ionised gas is expelled into the surrounding interstellar medium by a red giant star, which was passing through the last stage in its evolution before becoming a white dwarf.

 

It has a distance of 2,300 light-years from Earth.

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Uploaded on June 22, 2017