M57, THE RING NEBULA on 2024-06-07+08 

M57, or the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a previously sun-like star. A tiny white star near the center of M57 is a white dwarf and is the star that produced the nebula by blowing off its outer layers creating a vast luminous envelope of ionized gas. M57 is about 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra and is tilted toward Earth so that astronomers see the ring face-on.

This photo was taken in Kyle, Texas through a 6-inch f/4 Telescope, on a Sky-Watcher EQ6-R mount, with a ZWO ASI533MC PRO color camera. The total image acquisition time is: 06 hrs 54 min 00 sec. The processing was done with PixInsight.

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