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- sonekw, on 11/06/2009, -2/+15One Ring to rule them all
- Bactame, on 11/06/2009, -2/+10Not the usual red, yellow, green fluorescent image of the Ring Nebula. Three dimensional image is quite impressive.
- atariman5000, on 11/06/2009, -0/+3Is it me, or does it looks like a rose?
- ratava911, on 11/06/2009, -1/+4mmmm... deep fried nebula ring
- Enig, on 11/06/2009, -1/+3Earlier this year, my 8yr old Son and I got a telescope (Zhumell Z8) and have seen many wonders... things that I never had any idea that one could see so directly for so "cheap" (one can be gotten for about $350 shipped). The ring nebula (Messier object 57) is definitely one of the top 3 things that we've observed so far, and alone is well worth getting into amateur astronomy for.
To see something like this "with your own eye" (aside from it reflecting onto a mirror and into a magnifying eyepiece) can put you into touch with parts of your psyche and consciousness that no image could ever touch.
If you should feel an urge to look into it, I offer the following brief advice... get the telescope with the biggest aperture (big aroundness, more or less) that you can afford. "Dobsonians" are what I would advise. Orion has some smaller ones (4, 6, 8 in), but are a little high on shipping... if you can make the jump to 8 (considered a super solid starting point), you can get the Zhumell, which comes with extra, very worthwhile accessories for cheaper.
Also, check out a couple of good books like Nightwatch and Turn Left At Orion to get started. - Starman3, on 11/06/2009, -1/+2A familiar sight to sky enthusiasts with even a small telescope, the Ring Nebula (M57) is some 2,000 light-years away in the musical constellation Lyra. The central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure - a collaborative effort combining data from three different telescopes - explores the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much farther from the nebula's central star. Of course, in this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, the glowing material does not come from planets. Instead, the gaseous shroud represents outer layers expelled from a dying, sun-like star. This remarkable composite image includes narrowband image data recording the Ring's atomic hydrogen emission (shown as violet) in visible light and molecular hydrogen emission (shown as red) at near infrared wavelengths. The much more distant spiral galaxy IC 1296 is also visible at the upper right.
- macaman, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Best image I've seen of M57
- Dustmuffins, on 11/06/2009, -1/+2Alternate spectrum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M57_The_Ring_Neb ...
Infrared: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M57RingNebula.jp ... - slowexplosion, on 11/06/2009, -1/+2best part is clicking to zoom and seeing tons of 'little' galaxies. gotta love the deep field
- espen89, on 11/06/2009, -1/+2Reminds me of when that hemoroid crawled back up Kyle's ass in Cartmanland
- Fuzzycop, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Whispering...... "Rosebuuuuud!".
- Greengoo, on 11/06/2009, -1/+2I saw "APOD: Ring" and thought this was about my 360. I was coming here to join the flame war :(
- knightcrusader, on 11/06/2009, -1/+1Looks kinda like an eye... *Prepares for comments about God watching us*
- Greengoo, on 11/06/2009, -2/+1One Ring to find them...
- PhoenixSmasher, on 11/06/2009, -4/+1Those *****' hobbit movies were boring as hell. All it was, was a bunch of people walking, three movies of people walking to a ***** volcano.
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