Showing posts with label M57 and IC1296. Show all posts
Showing posts with label M57 and IC1296. Show all posts

Sunday, October 14, 2007

M57 Planetary nebula

Focusing is much easier now with a self-made Hartmann mask (with 3 triangles).
See the result of better collimation and focusing. With only 20min I have the same result as previous 60min exposures.
Also the "coma" abberation is much less compared with the previous exposures I took from M57. It was a lot of work, but the re-adjusting of the whole telescope paid off.

Very faint, at 4-o-clock position from the nebula, 2-3 rings further is very faintly visible IC1296, a barred spiral galaxy of 15.3 magnitude, 300 million lightyears away from us.