Taken at primefocuse with a 10" LX200GPS w/UHTC
Canon AE-1 camera 5 minute exposure.
The Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula, a planetary nebula is the result of a dying star about the size of our own sun, when the star reaches the end of its life it swells to hundreds of times its size and after a few million years of this, it will blow off its outer layers.
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