Astro: IC 1296 with M57 on the side

I was really shooting M57, an object that has won in every encounter for
the last three years. I can't seem to get a good shot of it. But IC
1296 sure came out well. I was amazed at the small star clouds that
line part of the rim of the galaxy's disk. Most shots only show the two
arms and miss the disk. But I seem to have picked up some star clouds
in that disk's edge. Not bad for a bit over 200 million light years.
It must be spectacular for those fortunate to live in a galaxy that can
see it from 10 or 20 million light years.

While M57 looks to be a narrow band type image this is pure LRGB. I
processed it to bring out the faint inner part of the outer shell even
though one hour exposure time at 1x1 binning is a severe under exposure.
Seeing fell to crap after three frames and after two months of waiting
never returned so these three frames was all I could get. I needed 4 or
more hours to do it right of Lum data and a good hour more for each
color. Seeing just didn't cooperate. Color was taken on one of those
lousy seeing nights that I seem to always have when I try for this guy.
How these three frames slipped by my jinx I don't know. This is a
crop of the center of the full frame. Full frame would have been
several megabytes in size. I didn't even process but this center
17'x12' section of the the 34'x24' full frame. Scale = 0.5" per pixel.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=3x20' binned 1x1, RGB = 3x10 binned 2x2,
STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick
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