Space Time Live - S2E19 - M57 Through a Meade LX65 8” ACF

Telescope: Henrietta (Meade 8“ ACF LX65 $1,339) Planetary Camera: Fritz (ZWO ASI 294 Uncooled $699) Live Stream Camera: Iphone8 Field Computer: Surface Pro 4 Recorded: August 18th, 2021 Orion Telescopes: We revisit the Ring Nebula and gaze at it’s stellar remnant resting within. Deep within the ring of glowing green and red gas is a white dwarf: the remaining core of a star that was not unlike our own. Near the end this star’s life, it swelled into a Red Giant. The upper atmosphere of this Red Giant was far from the star’s core, and had such weak gravity that lighter gases began to blow away into space. Meanwhile, the inner portions of the star, still close enough to the core to feel strong gravity, collapsed into it’s current state. No longer able to produce light through nucleosynthesis, the faint white spec we see is visibl