Messier 16 - The Eagle Nebula
An open cluster of stars as well as a diffuse emission nebula. Source of the famous "Pillars of Creation" image produced by the Hubble Space Telescope. About 7000 light-years distant.
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Filename: M16-LRGB-PS-201701282011.jpg
Album name: 27telp / Nebulae
Location and Date: OCA site near Anza, California, 7/3/2016
Equipment: William Optics FLT-132 scope, QSI 583wsg CCD camera, Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount, Starlight Xpress Lodestar autoguider camera
Settings: 12 300-second exposures each in Luminance (binned 1x1); 12 Red, 10 Green and 11 Blue (binned 2x2)
Notes: Software: Image capture with Maxim DL v. 5.12, post-capture-processing with CCDStack v2 and Adobe Photoshop CS4
Filesize: 444 KiB
Date added: Jun 16, 2019
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