M16 Eagle Nebula in Serpens Cauda

The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16 (M16), is a star-forming region located about 5,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens Cauda. It was made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope's image of the "Pillars of Creation," which are towering columns of gas and dust where new stars are being born.

 

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Telescope: Celestron C11-A XLT Schmidt Cassegrain OTA

Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro

 

Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Plus

Main Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -10C

Filter: Optolong L-eNhance filter

Focuser: ZWO EAF

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Mini guidecam

Guide via: ZWO OAG

 

Stacked from:

Lights 8 at 120 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C

Darks 30 at 120 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C

Flat 30 at 4 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C

Dark Flat 30 at 4 seconds, gain 101 temp -10C

 

Bortle 4 sky.

Integrated the saved frames in Astro Pixel Processor.

Processed in PixInsight

Captions added in Photoshop CS4

 

 

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