by Dave Mitsky
This 35-second long image of M57, the famous Ring Nebula in Lyra, was captured remotely on 2009/6/4 using the Bradford Robotic Telescope's 14" f/11 Celestron C14 SCT and FLI MicroLine camera located on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. A Celestron focal reducer yielding an effective focal length of 1877mm at f/5.3 was employed. North is up and east is to the left in the image. For more on M57, browse http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/E/m057.html