in this video we're going to explain how
to find the Ring Nebula is a great
object find in the summer months as it
is bright enough to stand out against
the lighter sky furthermore it is
visible with telescopes of 60
millimeters aperture and larger to
start with find Vega one of the
brightest stars in the northern
hemisphere at this time of year
we should look something like this
through your telescope then go down from Vega
and slightly to the south a short way
away you'll find two stars bright enough
to see with the naked eye even in light
polluted skies now look at those two
stars with a low powered eyepiece or a
finderscope and you should see that one
star has a star close to it you need to
go towards the other star as you go in
this direction you should see a small
fuzzy ring this is the Ring Nebula if you
then use a lot higher magnification it
should bring out the detail better this
footage should represent what you'll see
through an eyepiece note that I have
actually use a Nebula Filter here to
bring out the light of the nebula it
better to see more detail try using
inverted vision this is where you look
away slightly from the actual object and
try and look out the corner of your eye
you'll be surprised how much more detail
you can actually see using this method
finally we're going to look at a
stacked version of this image which is
using several stacked images in Deep
Sky Stacker and unsurprisingly this
has brought out more detail you'll see
there two sides of the ring are brighter
than the top and bottom of the ring the
Ring Nebula is a cloud of cold gas
mostly hydrogen and helium expanding away
from a small hot central star which is
to faint to be seen in any telescope
less than 12 inches in aperture the
nebula itself is estimated to be between
1,000 and 5,000 light-years away from us
well that's it folks for another video
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