M57 The Ring Nebula - telescope processed image. It's a planetary nebula created by a dying star shedding its outer layers. The "ring" is actually a barrel-shaped cloud of gas.

M57 The Ring Nebula - unprocessed image. Its vibrant colors come from ionized gases: blue from helium in the center, green from oxygen, and red from nitrogen and sulfur on the outer edge.

A fresh image of the object that made me want to have a smart telescope. #M57 #TheRingNebula. #unistellar #odysseypro #space #astronomy #amateur

M57 - The Ring Nebula - telescope processed image. M57, the Ring Nebula, is a stunning planetary nebula in Lyra. It's the colorful, glowing gas shell shed by a dying, sun-like star, seen face-on as a ring.

M57 - The Ring Nebula - unprocessed image. It looks like a smoke ring or donut because we're looking down the barrel of the expanding gas shell, which was puffed out by a dying star.

Continuing on the nebulas, here is #M57 - #TheRingNebula. I have commented before that I think the unprocessed image looks better on an earlier post. #unistellar #odysseypro #space #astronomy #amateur

M57 The Ring Nebula - telescope processed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. M57 is the Ring Nebula, a beautiful, glowing planetary nebula in Lyra. It's the colorful, expanding gas shell expelled by a dying Sun-like star.

M57 The Ring Nebula - unprocessed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. Despite its name, the Ring Nebula isn't a perfect sphere. Its ring shape is actually a barrel or doughnut of gas we're looking at almost end-on.

Decided to go take a look at #M57 #TheRingNebula again. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur

M57 The Ring Nebula - processed image with LP filter. M57 The Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra, formed by the expanding, glowing gas of a dying, sun-like star about 2,300 light-years away, leaving a white dwarf remnant.

M57 The Ring Nebula - unprocessed image with LP filter. It looks like a simple ring, but is actually a complex, donut-shaped cloud of gas expelled by a dying star, viewed end-on from Earth.

M57 The Ring Nebula - processed image without LP filter. It was discovered in 1779 by French astronomer Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, and later independently cataloged by Charles Messier as M57.

M57 The Ring Nebula - unprocessed image without the LP filter. Estimates vary, but the gas shell was expelled by the dying star roughly 4,000 to 15,000 years ago, and it's still expanding today.

Good Monday morning. More observations from last night and this morning from the s50. Starting out with #M57 #TheRingNebula. The first 2 images are the result with the LP filter onboard the s50. The next 2 are without the LP filter. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur