The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

Planetary Nebula

By ebfaulkner6a at Fri, 10/03/2014 - 7:19pm
Planetary Nebula

This image appears in the October issue of Astronomy Magazine, and seemed to be a challenge for me to image, so that I did, while always trying to get the star that is located inside the ring of this 12.5 magnitude 42 second diameter nebula.

Tough one

Submitted by kuky
on Sat, 10/04/2014 - 12:45pm

Nice job

Thanks

Submitted by ebfaulkner6a
on Sun, 10/05/2014 - 1:14pm

Thanks Kuky, appreciate that.