The beautiful expanding remnant of a dying star . The “Ring” is the classic example of a planetary nebula object. It is felt that our own sun will die in similar fashion, puffing off its outer shell, in some 5 billion more years

12 1/2″ Ritchey Chretien Telescope with an ST8e/CFW8F/7 LRGB(3min B/W, 1/5min 2×2 bin RGB)