M16

M16 The Eagle in HST palette

 

Since it's cloudy and I'm impatient, I added my HA data captured recently to older color data:

 

 

9/9/20:

HA-10x300 as LUM

QHY23M & Meade 8" LX-50

 

9/21-9/23 2017

LUM-28x30

Red-21x30

Green-18x30

Blue-23x30

HA-15x120

OIII-22x120

SII-16x120

QHY163M &11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar(F/2)

 

Also known as the Star Queen Nebula, the Eagle is #16 in Charles Messier's 1764 "not a comet list". It lies an estimated 7000 light years away in the constellation of Serpens

 

Center (RA, Dec):(274.721, -13.845)

Center (RA, hms):18h 18m 53.061s

Center (Dec, dms):-13° 50' 41.487"

Size:26.9 x 23.1 arcmin

Radius:0.295 deg

Pixel scale:1.39 arcsec/pixel

Orientation:Up is 258 degrees E of N

 

Done