My 1st deep space capture

[Catanonia]

The ring nebula in the lyra constallation south of Vega.


Taken with a DSLR Sony A700 with 500mm zoom and x2 teleconverter and cropped quite a bit.

Single shot of 2 seconds with static mount

1000mm 2sec at F6.3 ISO 1600

A bit crap because of the low exposure rate, but all manually guided by a DSLR on a standard tripod. Helps having an easy to find (ish, well not at 1000mm) object



Chuffed because I managed to capture it, which was my only goal tonight. :)

Can wait for my scope and comp driven mount.

In mean time will try stacking piccies of this as have about 20 subs of this.

[A.S.I.G.N. Observatory]

We all have to start somewhere mate. It looks pretty solid, are you sure it's not a star or planet?

The ring is VERY faint and I am puzzled as to how you could capture it in 2 seconds.

Here's what the Ring Nebula should look like.

Baz.

[chris.bailey]

Sorry mate but at that scale if that was the ring neb you would have some other stars showing in the frame. As Baz says its pretty faint at Mag 9 so my guess would be that you have Vega a bit out of focus. Do yourself a favour and have a go at some of the brighter targets (Mag 6 or so), M57 is a toughy that is best kept for later.

[Catanonia]

Been looking and looking at the star charts and the object pictured is definately at the center of the ring nebula to a precise location. I have a shot or two of the larger region clearly showing Lyra layout.

The shot I have posted is a large zoom on an original picture.

Perhaps it is one of the stars in the nebula and I haven't captured the gas clouds of the nebula due to the short exposures and you guys are right, it should be much larger the nebula.

Here is a smaller crop of the picture it came from

[Catanonia]

Check with another members shoots the other night of the ring nebula and my sky maps with his and it is definately the nebula :)

Here is a link from the other night http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=700149

I think it looks wierd because of the low 180mm dlsr camera and actually it was comprised of about 10 2 second ISO 1600 shots so was pretty bad data.

edit : Ignore the original picture, you guys are right as ever it is not the nebula. I got it on the wide angle but not on the close up :(