This image of Messier 57, the Ring Nebula, is a stack of 16 ten-minute frames taken with the Celestron Nightscape camera on the Celestron 11" Edge HD Deluxe CPC, stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop.

M57 (NGC 6720) is a relatively large and bright planetary nebula located just south of the star Vega in the constellation of Lyra. It is easily detectable with a good telescope even in moderately light polluted skies. This glowing ring is an expanding wave front of ionized gas expelled from the remains of a red giant star, now visible as a white dwarf in the middle of the ring.

You can also see the faint face-on barred spiral galaxy of IC 1296, which I hadn't noticed in previous attempts at capturing M57. This one is too faint to see with a typical telescope in any sort of light pollution. There's also another tiny galaxy just to the lower left of that in a line out from M57.

Image Center:	View full size annotated image.
Right Ascension:	18h 53m 35.389s (283° 23m 50.828s)
Declination:	+33° 1m 38.892s
Orientation:	Up is 0.2 degrees West of North.
Image Size:	20.956' x 15.630'	Pixel Scale:	0.348"

Principal objects in field: IC 1296, M 57, NGC 6720, Ring nebula in Lyra

All identified catalog objects: HD 175353, IC 1296, NGC 6720, Tycho-2 2642-1384-1, Tycho-2 2642-1568-1, Tycho-2 2642-1578-1, Tycho-2 2642-1690-1, Tycho-2 2642-2074-1, Tycho-2 2642-509-1, Tycho-2 2642-84-1