A couple of weeks ago I took some images of the ring nebula. They were posted at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-743442-1.html
and
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-743879-1.html

These new images used the same data but were reprocessed using some masks I created to greatly reduce haloing around the stars along with some additional processing to improve details in the ring and augment some of the small dim distance galaxies in the image. The most easily visible galaxy in the image is IC 1296 to the upper left of the ring. This is a barred spiral galaxy with a magnitude of 14.8 and has an estimated distance of 240 million light years. This is the only galaxy in the image that showed up in my charts. Most of the other galaxies in the image are much dimer and smaller but can be seen using double download. (Note: the ring nebula is only 2300 light years away.) I consider these the best images of the ring nebula I have been able to create so far.

The first photo used Luminance, Red, Green and Blue filters with a mono camera to gather the data for the image.
The second image added in just over 11 hours of Hydrogen Alpha filter data to capture the dim outer halo around the ring. The Ha data was masked to only include the halo around the ring nebula (Without masking everything turned red). Additional information about the exposures and equipment used can be found in the links above.

All questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.