The Ring Nebula

This is my first attempt at Deep Space Imaging.

Its the Ring Nebula and through the eyepiece of the telescope it looks like a very small grey smoke ring from a cigarette.

Its in the constellation of Lyra which almost overhead this month. Lyra contains the really bright star Vega.

Using an unmodified Dslr, I was amazed to see how much more detail and colour is captured.

I am sure that experienced astrophotographers would see this image and and say that it is a poor attempt but it has given me a lot of pleasure to capture an image of an object that is about 11,800 trillion miles away.

Our Sun is a mere 93 million miles away.