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| Common Name | Eagle Nebula | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Formal Name | M 16 / NGC 6611 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 7/25-30/2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Constellation | Serpens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Eldorado, TX X Bar Ranch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equipment | Takahashi Sky90 piggybacked on Nexstar 11GPS, SBig 2000XM Camera/Filter Wheel, Astrodon filters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Temperature | −15°C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Processing | Calibrated in CCDSoft Aligned in Registar Adaptive Added, Digital Developed in Images Plus Cropped, Adjusted Curves in Photoshop |
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| Notes | A star-forming nebula with a young open star cluster. The nebula is best known for the Pillars of Creation region, three large pillars of gas famously photographed by Hubble in 1995. Also known as the Star Queen Nebula, M16 lies at a distance of 7,000 light years from Earth. The Eagle Nebula occupies an area 70 by 55 light years in size, or 30 arc minutes of the sky, while the open cluster has a radius of 15 light years. www.messier-objects.com |