The Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Lyra. It lies approximately 2570 light-years from earth with a diameter of about 2.6 light-years. The Ring Nebula is located near the bright star Vega making it relatively easy to find in the night skies when visible during the North American summer months. It is a small but bright object measuring just an apparent 3′ 48′ by 2′ 24″ requiring a significant amount of cropping even with large magnification. 

This image was made with a Nikon Z7 II and a Nikon 600mm f/6.3 lens with a 1.4x teleconverter for a total 840mm at f/9. A total of 120 30-second exposures at ISO 6400 were made for a total of 60 minutes exposure time. Star tracking was done with a Fornax LighTack II. Aligned images from Deep Sky Stacker were stacked and stretched using Python coded algorithms. Some final image processing was done with Topaz DeNoise AI and Capture One.