I saw it for the first time at my wife's college's astronomy department that had it's fall evening under the stars last November 1st. They own three Meade LX200 SCT's, two 8" and one 12" and also one C8 CPC. The 12" was tracking M57, so I waited in line for my turn, and wow..what a sight! A perfect light grey smoke ring suspended in space. I was surprised at how sharp the object was even in a light polluted site. Aperture rules, I guess.

Hopefully I can find it myself with a 10" Meade SCT in the coming months. I tried to find it last fall with an 8" SCT, but never could confirm it. But I found M27/the Dumbbell nebulae with a SV 102ED as well as with the 8" SCT.