OBSERVING THE RING NEBULA (AND DEEP SKY CHALLENGE #4)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Messier 57 or M57 is also known as the Ring Nebula, probably the most famous planetary nebula in the night sky. It can be found in the constellation Lyra. It can be seen in small telescopes but to see the central star is the deep sky challenge and it's challenging at magnitude 15.8. So, in this video I will tell you about the Ring Nebula, how to locate it, what to know about it, and how to see the central star.
You and Small Optics have the best astronomy channels on TH-cam. After I moved beyond the beginner stage you seem to answer all the questions I have about observing. Thank you!
That is very nice of you to say. Thank you. Thank you for watching and I'm glad my videos were helpful to you.
thanks for the video, i dont think i ever tried to find it. iam just happy just looking at the nebula itself but nothing wrong in trying something new, cheers
Thanks, Joe.
The Ring has a bright 13th magnitude star adjacent to it. Your sketch shows it, but you have also plotted several fainter stars near the nebula, which I see in my 13.1 Dob. These are ~15th magnitude. The problem is that the central star is embedded in the gaussy center of the ring and on the edge of visibility for the aperture used. Good seeing, dark skies, and atmospheric transparency are important. Being near the zenith provides the best view of course. You saw it very well despite no central star. I enjoyed your sketch very much, as well as this well produced video. Thank you.
Thank you so much. I enjoyed taking the time to view the Ring so thoroughly even though I didn't see the central star.
Thank you for posting this video, Tsula. Very nice sketch of the Ring Nebula.
Thank you.
Ironically this is the 1st deep sky object I had seen some years ago in my 12" DOB. Just photographed it again a few nights ago. Absolutely one of my favorite deep sky objects. Central star in photos easily. Unfortunately visual is a no go here also.
The central star shows well in photos but is very difficult visually.
thanks
Another great video! Very educational and entertaining. Thank you!
Thank you! I appreciate it.
Thanks for another great video Tsula!
Thank you, Jim.
Absolutely love your videos! I have a 12” dob and have never seen it. We rarely have great transparency simultaneous with great seeing here in the Great Lakes region. The nebula itself though is one of my favs.
Thank you! It's rare that I get great transparency and great seeing simulatneously either. But still worth trying for.
Great video!
Thank you!
It’s not easy finding stuff up there.., and there’s no failure, just a delay of time.
Good reason to set it all up again though! Good video!
Thank you! It's easy to get discouraged but I'll keep trying! After all it took me years to see the Horsehead Nebula.
@@tsulasbigadventures I’m still looking for the horse head, it’s difficult under the sky in Georgia
I couldn't see it in my 12" SCT from a location at 9,000 ft of elevation in the Valle Grande, NM under Bortle 3 moonless skies. I'm extremely skeptical of anyone who claims they can see it in an 8". A good test for anyone who claims to be able to see it is to have them describe all the nearby stars. There's a 13th and a 14th magnitude star very close by, if they can't see them, then they can't see the central star either.
Interesting video
Great video Tsula! Could you recommend some nebulas that are similarly to the ring nebula, bright and easy to find and see with a small telescope (in my case, 4") and manual mount?
Thank you. How dark is it where you observe? There are many nebulae in Cygnus that can be seen with a small telescope but require dark skies. If you can take your telescope to a dark sky site then you can try for the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, one of my favorites and easy to find because it's in a line between Sadr and Nu Cygni. Have you seen the North America Nebula, NGC 7000? It's huge; so, it's perfect for a small telescope but also requires dark skies. The Helix Nebula is gigantic and perfect for a 4" telescope. NGC 7293 is a must see!
@@tsulasbigadventures Thanks, I live in a suburban area, around B4 to B5. Looking forward to a clear night and I'll try to catch some of those!
@@filip9a3bcw75 Then those are good targets for you. Good luck!
Hi Tsula, I just love your energy and enthusiasm for this hobby and find it really inspiring! If only I had skies to match yours….currently clouded in on all sides so will have to be patient and add the ring nebula to my ever growing list of targets to see! Someone mentioned in the last comments it might be difficult to get spare parts for repairing Meade telescopes. I have just sourced some chips to repair a declination drive and a new control panel, so parts are available for now. Schematics can be downloaded easily online, so you can make sure exactly what you need for your repair. Hope this is helpful…Here’s to dark skies….Please!!! 🤗🌙
Hi Lynn: Thanks! Thank you for the information. So far, I have not had any issues with any of my Meade telescopes. I cannot say the same about Skywatcher. I decided to replace my EQ6R Pro with a Skywatcher AZEQ6 so that I could put it into Alt-Az mode inside the observatory. It came missing one counterweight. It took them over a week to send the counterweight. Finally I got it up and running and with the roof open I could use it in equatorial mode and I polar aligned and started observing. It was somewhat accurate but every time I went to center and pushed the left button on the hand controller it would just start slewing out of control well out of the FOV and into another area entirely even after I let go of the button! I had bought it from Agena Astro and they just said I needed to talk to Skywatcher. I have been waiting for another week for someone from Skywatcher to contact me about why it is slewing out of control. Have you ever encountered this issue with your EQ6? My EQ6 never did this. I have no idea why it is doing this and I can't find any information about it in the manual. In fact, there is no trouble shooting section in the manual. Do you know why it would do this? Thanks for listening to my sad story.
Hi Tsula, sorry to hear you are having problems. I will get back to you with any more ideas on this. First of all check your power supply voltage, as a fluctuation can cause things to go haywire! The AZ EQ6 requires 12V 5 amp power supply. I think the handset will show this. If the power supply in your new observatory has been replaced just check this , as it might be too high and causing the problem. If you have used the EQ6R model in there with no problems, try using the cable from that mount as the cable could or transformer could be faulty and disrupting the current My original Meade motor gave up due to voltage issues, and the declination although working now, is still running fast due to an electrical short that has to be fixed. Current has a lot to answer for!
Check the handcontroller is correctly
set up and the slewing speed input correctly ( if at all! ) I really hope this is helpful and you can get this sorted out. Of course if it’s an internal fault it should be replaced by the company you bought it from without question. Thinking of you and hoping this helps 🤗✨🌙
@@lindafinch8983 Thanks for all that information. I will check the voltage coming from the observatory and see if it is correct and I didn't even think to check the slew rate but I didn't have trouble finding my alignment stars. I have to wait a couple of days to check it again and if it still slews out of control Agena Astro has to take it back or replace it. Thank you a again.
@@tsulasbigadventures You’re welcome, I hope the ideas prove useful, please let me know how it works out
I love your videos and your sincere appreciation for these objects. I find the ring nebula beautiful and I’ve never tried for the central star, so thank you for the inspiration! I’ll try this week with my 17.5” dobsonian.
Also - is that the same Stellarvue SVX90T that your friend is still letting you use in the video?
Thank you and good luck with your 17.5" Dob. Yes, that's my friend's 90mm Stellarvue. She felt bad for me when my car was broken into and the guy took off with my Orion EON 90mm and she gave me the Stellarvue! Unbelievably generous.
The magnitude limit of my telescope is 14m, oh well. But I tried and of course have seen the Ring Nebula.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you and thanks for watching.
Fantastic tsula i appreciate your content!
Thank you! Thanks for watching.
one of the first nebulas i managed to find when i was a kid
Those are the kinds of memories you never forget.
Very nice video which coincidentally interrupted my viewing of ones devoted to Amazon's second season of THE RINGS OF POWER. 🙂
Thank you. I think that was a good interruption.
@@tsulasbigadventures There are many excellent channels on TH-cam devoted to the cinematic adaptations of Tolkien, with a knowledge of his work far deeper than mine even though I love THE LORD OF THE RINGS and can even recite a few of its poems from memory. But as for the Amazon production - let's just say one never appreciates great artists until lesser ones try to imitate them.
The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In elder days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The western seas have passed away.
The world was fair in Durin's day!
The world is gray, the mountains old,
The forge's fire ashen-cold.
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls.
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls.
A shadow falls across his tomb
In Moria - in Khazad-dum!
@@waltergold3457 Very nice poem. I loved The Hobbit when I was very young-- a long time ago but I never got into the rest of the books. I just liked The Hobbit only.
@@tsulasbigadventures THE HOBBIT is a nice children's tale with strokes of Tolkien's genius - he wrote it for his son Christopher, relying on the vast histories and myths which he'd created for his own amusement in the decades following WWI - but can't be compared to LOTR, which he produced at the insistence of his publishers following THE HOBBIT's success. It's arguably the greatest literary work of the 20th century, an apotheosis of religion and history written by a world-class scholar, and certainly the most popular one. (Tolkien, the simple don, took the themes of Wagner's Ring but, unlike the egomaniac Wagner, wisely made his heroes simple hobbits rather than horned gods and goddesses.) One chapter, called "The Taming of Smeagol", is particularly worthy of the finest playwrights and poets.
PS: The good news is that Peter Jackson's trilogy is a loving and faithful adaptation - well worth seeing in its entirety. Even the special effects continue to amaze, despite the passage of two decades.
I am going to try at great lakes stargaze with their giant 28 inch telescope in a bortle 3 this weekend. I will also try for stephen’s quintet.
That sounds fun! Good luck.
@@tsulasbigadventures thanks!
What is Great Lakes stargaze?
@@MarkSmith-of5fe It is a star party hosted in gladwin michigan for people who are in the area and don’t want to drive too far for a good dark site.