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M16 Eagle nebula
Narrow band image of the pillars of creation.
Using the Hubble palette, plus Hb filter
C14 edge working at F7.8
EQ8 mount
Atik414 camera
Baader filters
Total exposure 5hrs
Artemis capture
Nebulosity
Topaz Gigapixel - AI.sharpen
Photoshop
I took the newly repaired Skywatcher Esprit120 out for a test tonight. (Last time I used this scope was on November 14th, 2014. I sent it in to get repaired and also got surgery so its been a while. The dew shield was replaced with a new one and now everything is working great!) I didn't bring the autoguider out because my plan was to mainly image Saturn tonight. Spent a considerable amount of time on Saturn then quickly took this image to test the optics. I was surprised how well this stack turned out considering how rushed this was. Had to keep the exposure times low because no autoguider. The target was very low in the sky and there was a rising moon too. I removed the LP filter out of the corrector/flattener to see the difference, (previously I was using an Antares LP filter and there were these little blue reflections around the brighter stars).. Result I think it the scope performs beautifully. I hope I can take this scope to dark skies sometime.
M16 Eagle Nebula
22 x 45seconds (lights + darks) (unguided)
iso 1600
Canon 500d(modified)
Skywatcher Esprit120
Neq6
Preprocessed in Nebulosity, stacked in DSS, processed in Pixinsight.
Location: Vanouver, BC
Temperature: 17°C
Light Pollution/Bortle Scale: 7-8
Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using an SBIG STL-11000 camera and Takahashi BRC 250 telescope on a Software Bisque PME Mount.
H-alpha filter; 6 hours exposure total (36 x 10 min)
LINK
Other images from this series:
False Colour: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51630262673/
Mono: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51630037926/
Negative Mono: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51630688064/
The Heart of the Eagle nebula.
Combined image of the Pillars and the Star Queen.
Using the Hubble palette, plus Hb filter
C14 edge working at F7.8
EQ8 mount
Atik414 camera
Baader filters
Total exposure 10hrs 30m
Artemis capture
Nebulosity
Topaz Gigapixel - AI.sharpen
Photoshop
Out of this world public domain images from NASA. All original images and many more can be found from the NASA Image Library
Curated higher resolutions with digital enhancement without attribution required can be downloaded: www.rawpixel.com/board/418580/nasa
This is a free download under CC Attribution ( CC BY 4.0) Please credit NASA and rawpixel.com.
The "Pillars of Creation" at the heart of the Eagle Nebula, aka M16.
8.5" x 11" lithograph, on standard weight paper.
Description on the verso:
"Undersea coral? Enchanted castles? Space serpents? These eerie, dark, pillar-like structures are actually columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and that are incubators for new stars. The pillars protrude from the interior wall of a dark molecular cloud like stalagmites from the floor of a cavern. The structures are part of the Eagle Nebula, a nearby star-forming region 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens.
The pillars are in some ways akin to buttes in the desert, where basalt and other dense rock have protected a region from erosion while the surrounding landscape has been worn away. In this celestial case, especially dense clouds of dust and molecular hydrogen gas (two atoms of hydrogen in each molecule) have survived longer than their surroundings as they are flooded by ultraviolet light from nearby hot, massive newborn stars in an erosive process called photoevaporation. The ultraviolet light is also responsible for illuminating the convoluted surfaces of the pillars and the ghostly streamers of gas boiling away from their surfaces, producing dramatic visual effects that highlight the three-dimensional nature of the clouds. The tallest pillar (left) is about a light-year long from base to tip.
As the pillars are slowly evaporated away by the ultraviolet light, small globules of even denser gas buried within the pillars are uncovered. These globules have been named evaporating gaseous globules – EGGs. The term aptly describes their nature, for forming inside some of the EGGs are embryonic stars, which abruptly stop growing when the EGGs are uncovered and separated from the larger reservoir of gas from which they were drawing mass. Eventually, the newborn stars emerge as EGGs themselves succumb to photoevaporation.
The picture was taken on April 1, 1995. The color image is constructed from three separate images taken in the light of emission from different types of atoms; red shows emission from singly ionized sulfur atoms, green shows from emission from hydrogen, and blue shows light emitted by doubly ionized oxygen atoms."
www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-pillars-of-creation
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Credit: JPL Photojournal
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Credit: JPL website
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Last, but NOT least:
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Credit: HUBBLESITE/Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) website
All 16 of my Nebula paintings... oil on canvas ranging in size from 24 x 36 to 36 x 48 inches.... please visit my web page , barbarasheehan.com/works
The Eagle Nebula (also known as M16 and NGC 6611) is an emission nebula 7000 light years away in the constellation Serpens. The first imaging session in nearly a month because conditions were so bad throughout most of June so it was a huge relief to be out with the scope again. M16 is a tricky target from this location, it is very low in the sky so the telescope was pointing straight into murky London sky glow. Also there is only a very short window of opportunity to capture it as it emerges from behind one copse of trees and disappears behind another. I was hoping to combine these data with old data from this time last year but when I looked at the old images it was obvious that conditions were significantly worse when they were taken so I decided to live with just the 90 minutes of integration time...but that was enough to get reasonable detail. What I love about M16 is the Pillars of Creation in the centre (made famous by the wonderful images captured by the Hubble Telescope). They are a huge star-forming region composed of columns of hydrogen gas and dust.
Information from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula
018 x 300 second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C
050 x dark frames
030 x flat frames
100 x bias frames (subtracted from flat frames)
Binning 1x1
Total integration time = 1 hour and 30 minutes
Captured with APT
Guided with PHD2
Processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop
Equipment:
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5
Guide Scope: Orion 50mm Mini
Guiding Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600MC Pro
Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector
Light pollution filter
Messier 16, M16, or commonly known as the Eagle Nebula, Ear Nebula and Star Queen. The nebula is most famous for the photo of the Pillars of Creation in the "eagle" area, taken by the Hubble space telescope decades ago. Those pillars can be seen in the photo. This is the area where young stars are supposed to be created. The reason why the region is blue is because the newer stars are cooler than the the older stars and thus are blue.
This particular nebula was one of the celestial objects that I've wanted take a photo of since I was a young teen. I'm happy to have finally taken a photo of it.
Update 2015 Jan 06: Hubble has imaged the whole thing again with its WFC3 camera both in visible and infrared light! It's lovely! hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/01/image/c/
Just for fun. This is arguably Hubble's most famous image. A poll run at Asterisk in tandem with an APOD of the nebula asked readers if they had ever seen the image before and 95% of votes were yes.
Combining the f547m data on the green and blue channels allowed me to make the stars appear white rather than neon magenta. I also applied a good deal of sharpening. Filling the upper right corner with cloned data is tempting, but it's not really that bad if you color the missing data similarly to the surrounding sky. Besides, I'm quite fond of the way the telescope was positioned to fit the pillars into the WFPC2's funny framing.
Red: hst_05773_05_wfpc2_f673n_wf_sci
Green: hst_05773_05_wfpc2_f656n_wf_sci + hst_05773_05_wfpc2_f547m_wf_sci
Blue: hst_05773_05_wfpc2_f502n_wf_sci + hst_05773_05_wfpc2_f547m_wf_sci
North is NOT up. It is 42.2° counter-clockwise from up.
The Hubble Space Telescope took some fantastic images of the Pillars of Creation, a prominent feature of the Eagle Nebula (M 16). The visible light image has wonderful colors, but not many stars, while the infrared light image has many stars, but not much color. I decided to combine them to get the best of both in a single image.
The images I edited to make this are:
Visible: www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501a/
Infrared: www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501b/
Credit (both): NASA, ESA/Hubble
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745-46. Its name derives from its shape that is thought to resemble an eagle. It contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the famous "Pillars of Creation". - Wiki
Taken on a Ritchey-Chrétien Cassegrain (317/2331mm) with a SBIG ST8 XME CCD with 1x each ofLRVB filters for 300s combined in photoshop and touched up in lightroom.
Processed using data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team/Kevin M. Gill
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M16 - the Eagle Nebula, including the Pillars of Creation and the structure known as the Stellar Spire.
Scope: Sharpstar 107PH
Flattener: Sky Rover 0.8
CCD: ZWO ASI 1600MM-pro
Filter wheel: ZWO manual
Ha: 24x300s
R/G/B: 30x120s
Mount: NEQ6-pro
Guiding: PHD2, ZWO OAG and ASI120MM
Total of about 5 hours exposure managed by SGP on one night: Friday 13 July 2018.
Processing in Photoshop, with Ha layer used as luminance.
I'll get better. Eagle nebula with my new gear. A DSLR instead of dedicated Astro cam, but I'm happy for now. About 3 hours worth of exposure.
A great classic for amateur astronomers. A star formation region with in the center the famous 'pillars of creation' This object is too low on the horizon in my normal observation site but I could move my equipment for the week end to the site of l'observatoire de Haute Provence and it was well worth it!
C11-HD, STXL 11002, Losmandy mount.
9 subs of 600s in Halpha
This region of star formation contains the Pillars of Creation, which was made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope. Chandra detects X-rays from young stars in the region, including one embedded in a pillar. X-rays from Chandra (red and blue); infrared image from Webb (red, green, and blue)
Read more about Chandra's 25th anniversary: chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2024/25th/
Image credit: Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare
Visual Description:
This composite image features a region of star formation known as the Pillars of Creation. Here, tall columns of grey gas and dust emerge from the bottom edge of the image, stretching toward our upper right. Backed by dark orange and pink mist, the cloudy grey columns are surrounded by dozens of soft, glowing, dots in whites, reds, blues, yellows, and purples. These dots are young stars emitting X-ray and infrared light. Churning with turbulent gas and dust, the columns lean to our right with small offshoots pointing in the same direction. The misty glow, colorful stars, and lifelike grey dust formations combine to create an image of yearning cloud creatures at dusk, reaching for something just out of frame.
Now that Loch Ness has passed, my last photo from the foggy night before is inspired by The Pillars of Creation. Part of Eagle Nebula M16, this is 4 light years long. That is 24,000,000,000 miles in size. Creation because this is where stars are born, and die. Back on microscopic earth, a tree grows, gives birth to many things, and dies. And like the pillars, all in the cloud of fog.
This a reprocessing of my Eagle nebula data, i wasn't very satisfied with the result that i obtained so i took another attempt, and in my opinion is a much better outcome.
Another target done from my bucket list, it's the M16 Eagle Nebula and the pillars of Creation, i used for this image the Hubble palette. For this palette Sulfur is mapped to Red, the Hydrogen Alpha is assigned to Green, and Oxygen to Blue.
Tecnosky SLD80mm (FL: 480mm) Apo Triplet Owl Series
ZWO ASI294MM Pro Cooled Camera
Tecnosky Flattener/Reducer 0.8X
ZWO EWF 7x36
Pegasus Astro Pocket Powerbox Advance
Pegasus Astro FocusCube 2
Antlia 3.5nm Ha Filter 36mm unmounted
Antlia 3.5nm SII Filter 36mm unmounted
Antlia 3.5nm OIII Filter 36mm unmounted
Skywatcher EQ6R-PRO
Integration:
- Ha 70x300s
- OIII 45x300s
- SII 45x300s
Calibration:
- Darks 40
- DarkFlats 40
- Flats 40
Shot over 15 nights from August 28 to September 09 2021 from my home balcony in Ragusa, Italy (Bortle 6)
Astrobin Full Res Link: www.astrobin.com/qr75aa/
Journalist Miles O'Brien discusses his favorite Hubble images during the 25th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope Awards Ceremony, Friday, April 24, 2015, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Seen behind O'Brien is the telescope's image of the Eagle Nebula's “Pillars of Creation."
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Edited Spitzer Space Telescope image of the Eagle Nebula (M16) where Hubble took the famous "Pillars of Creation" image a while ago. I annotated the location of the "Pillars of Creation" in color.
Original caption: This majestic view taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells an untold story of life and death in the Eagle nebula, an industrious star-making factory located 7,000 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. The image shows the region's entire network of turbulent clouds and newborn stars in infrared light.
The color green denotes cooler towers and fields of dust, including the three famous space pillars, dubbed the "Pillars of Creation," which were photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.
But it is the color red that speaks of the drama taking place in this region. Red represents hotter dust thought to have been warmed by the explosion of a massive star about 8,000 to 9,000 years ago. Since light from the Eagle nebula takes 7,000 years to reach us, this "supernova" explosion would have appeared as an oddly bright star in our skies about 1,000 to 2,000 years ago.
According to astronomers' estimations, the explosion's blast wave would have spread outward and toppled the three pillars about 6,000 years ago (which means we wouldn't witness the destruction for another 1,000 years or so). The blast wave would have crumbled the mighty towers, exposing newborn stars that were buried inside, and triggering the birth of new ones.
The pillars of the Eagle nebula were originally sculpted by radiation and wind from about 20 or so massive stars hidden from view in the upper left portion of the image. The radiation and wind blew dust away, carving out a hollow cavity (center) and leaving only the densest nuggets of dust and gas (tops of pillars) flanked by columns of lighter dust that lie in shadow (base of pillars). This sculpting process led to the creation of a second generation of stars inside the pillars.
If a star did blow up in this region, it is probably located among the other massive stars in the upper left portion of the image. Its blast wave might have already caused a third generation of stars to spring from the wreckage of the busted pillars.
This image is a composite of infrared light detected by Spitzer's infrared array camera and multiband imaging photometer. Blue is 4.5-micron light; green is 8-micron light; and red is 24-micron light.
I got slightly ahead of myself and took 3 more observations of M16 this morning using Skynet Robotic Telescope Network's 16" PROMPT telescopes in the Chilean Andes.
80 second exposures across rgb filters, combined in CS3.
M6 (The Eagle Nebula) clearly showing The Pillars of Creation. For some sort of scale the left most pillar is about 6 or 7 light years in length.
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the famous Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula. This is a version in high definition and released today (5 January 2015). (The original Pillars of Creation image was released in 1995, although it doesn't seem as if it was twenty years ago...)
Original caption: JANUARY 5, 2015: Although NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken many breathtaking images of the universe, one snapshot stands out from the rest: the iconic view of the so-called "Pillars of Creation." The jaw-dropping photo, taken in 1995, revealed never-before-seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula, or M16.
Though such butte-like features are common in star-forming regions, the M16 structures are by far the most photogenic and evocative. The Hubble image is so popular that it has appeared in movies and television shows, on tee-shirts and pillows, and even on a postage stamp. And now, in celebration of its 25th anniversary, Hubble has revisited the famous pillars, providing astronomers with a sharper and wider view, shown in the right-hand image. For comparison, the original 1995 Hubble image of the gaseous towers appears in the left-hand view. Streamers of gas can be seen bleeding off pillars as the intense radiation heats and evaporates it into space. Stars are being born deep inside the pillars.
Date: July 4, 2023
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 6 x 300sec Ha, Dithered
Telescope: Askar 107PHQ
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC-Pro OSC
Antlia ALP-T Narrowband
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290MM mini
ZWO OAG-L
Mount: iOptron GEM45
Calibrated with Flats and Dark Flats
ZWO ASIAIR Plus Control and Capture
Processed with DSS and Photoshop CC
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula in near infrared (which certainly changes how things look). This part of the nebula was originally imaged in 1995 and became Hubble's most famous image to date.
Original caption: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in near-infrared light, transforms the pillars into eerie, wispy silhouettes, which are seen against a background of myriad stars.
The near-infrared light can penetrate much of the gas and dust, revealing stars behind the nebula as well as hidden away inside the pillars. Some of the gas and dust clouds are so dense that even the near-infrared light cannot penetrate them. New stars embedded in the tops of the pillars, however, are apparent as bright sources that are unseen in the visible image.
The ghostly bluish haze around the dense edges of the pillars is material getting heated up by the intense ultraviolet radiation from a cluster of young, massive stars and evaporating away into space. The stellar grouping is above the pillars and cannot be seen in the image. At the top edge of the left-hand pillar, a gaseous fragment has been heated up and is flying away from the structure, underscoring the violent nature of star-forming regions.
Astronomers used filters that isolate the light from newly formed stars, which are invisible in the visible-light image. At these wavelengths, astronomers are seeing through the pillars and even through the back wall of the nebula cavity and can see the next generations of stars just as they're starting to emerge from their formative nursery.
Object Names: M16, Eagle Nebula, NGC 6611
Image Type: Astronomical
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the Pillars of Creation was acquired using only Near Infrared filters. The processed Flickr image is a small portion of the Eagle Nebula (M16) which is located in the constellation Serpens, the Serpent. The Pillars of Creation are dark columns of dust and hydrogen gas that lie in the central portion of M16. The Pillars of Creation contain star forming cocoons. The pillars are about four light years in height at maximum and roughly 6,000 light years from Earth.
By using Near Infrared (NIR) filters with the NIR sensitive camera of the HST, the resulting image provides a view of the Pillars of Creation in a way that the human eye cannot see since the image is outside the range of the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The NIR portion of the spectrum can penetrate the more of the dust in the clouds revealing the interior structure of the pillars in a way that cannot been seen in photos taken with visible spectrum. The NIR Flickr photo provides an “X-ray-like” image of the pillars that reveals the interior of the clouds that are not available in the photos obtained using visible light. The NIR Flick image of the Pillars of Creation is almost “ghost-like” in comparison to the same subject taken in visible light.
The HST imaging data was extracted from Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). The data was downloaded to my home PC for postprocessing with astrophotography software. All the data taken by the HST was Near Infrared (NIR).
•Two different HST filtered images from MAST were downloaded to my home PC for processing
•The raw image data was available from the NIR wide band filters
•Since three color channels are needed to process the data in the software, the channel assignments were as follows: the red channel was assigned to the longer NIR data image and the blue and green channel were assigned to the same shorter NIR data that maintained the chromatic ordering of Flickr image
•The Flickr NIR image is a pseudo color photo of the Pillars of Creation
•The processing software used to produce the Flickr photo was: PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2
By combining images of the iconic Pillars of Creation from two cameras aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the universe has been framed in its infrared glory. Webb’s near-infrared image was fused with its mid-infrared image, setting this star-forming region ablaze with new details.
Myriad stars are spread throughout the scene. The stars primarily show up in near-infrared light, marking a contribution of Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). Near-infrared light also reveals thousands of newly formed stars – look for bright orange spheres that lie just outside the dusty pillars.
In mid-infrared light, the dust is on full display. The contributions from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) are most apparent in the layers of diffuse, orange dust that drape the top of the image, relaxing into a V. The densest regions of dust are cast in deep indigo hues, obscuring our view of the activities inside the dense pillars.
Dust also makes up the spire-like pillars that extend from the bottom left to the top right. This is one of the reasons why the region is overflowing with stars – dust is a major ingredient of star formation. When knots of gas and dust with sufficient mass form in the pillars, they begin to collapse under their own gravitational attraction, slowly heat up, and eventually form new stars. Newly formed stars are especially apparent at the edges of the top two pillars – they are practically bursting onto the scene.
At the top edge of the second pillar, undulating detail in red hints at even more embedded stars. These are even younger, and are quite active as they form. The lava-like regions capture their periodic ejections. As stars form, they periodically send out supersonic jets that can interact within clouds of material, like these thick pillars of gas and dust. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old, and will continue to form for millions of years.
Almost everything you see in this scene is local. The distant universe is largely blocked from our view both by the interstellar medium, which is made up of sparse gas and dust located between the stars, and a thick dust lane in our Milky Way galaxy. As a result, the stars take center stage in Webb’s view of the Pillars of Creation.
The Pillars of Creation is a small region within the vast Eagle Nebula, which lies 6,500 light-years away.
NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.
MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.
Credits:
SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
IMAGE PROCESSING: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI)
Image description: ALT TEXT: At the bottom left of this almost-square image are the thickest regions of brown and purple gas and dust. There are many layers of semi-transparent gas and dust overlaying one another. A peak rises about a third of the way from the bottom, and becomes far darker with two bright red areas toward the tip, which look like lava. The dust becomes sheer about halfway up the image. There’s a slight gap in the dust, which allows the multi-colored background to come into view. The background is blue at bottom left, orange at top center, and hazy pink in regions right outside the pillars. The light brown pillars continue, taking the shape of a shoulder at the base, with three prominent columns rising out toward the upper right. The top left pillar is the largest and widest. The peaks of the second and third pillars are set off in darker shades of brown and have transparent purple haze just outside them.
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M16 the Eagle Nebula.
Background and nebulosity is SHO narrowband, 5 minute subs (15 Ha, 18 O3, 17 S2), stars are RGB, 30 second subs (19 R, 20 G, 20 B).
Sharpstar 107PH triplet APO, NEQ6 guided with PHD2, main imager ASI1600MM-pro, guide camera ASI120MM on ZWO OAG.
Processing using Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop for final combination and touches.
I took the infrared version and the optical version of the recently released Hubble Space Telescope image of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula and took the lightest pixel of each image - you get a lot of the infrared stars here that you don't see in the optical version.
(Jefferson Airplane"
I haven't heard that song in like, forever. But that's what popped into my mind as I looked at the figures seeming to surround the glow of the sun as it reflected from one to the next, watching a spirit form rise into the morning sky...
Maybe because the shape and colors reminded me of the "Pillars of Creation" - the 'clouds' of interstellar gas and dust that Hubble took the famous photo of.. It's one of the places where stars are being born as the gasses and dust are compressed.. Or perhaps, gathered together again is a better word for it, because all that gas and dust came from somewhere..
The sense of scale and drama of this morning's formation doesn't translate well into pictures, so y'all will just have to bear with me for a while. This is high season for early morning cloud formations, and I love dawn at this time of year.
Finally, we've created a group for PoC. Here, you can check out any news and information about PoC!
Link to group: www.flickr.com/groups/pillarsofcreation/
when I considered to fix my 95 version, Hubble uploaded the brand new 2014's . hesitated at the beginning but really sastify with my final result .
The Pillars of Creation, 60 minutes of integration in SHO with Planewave CDK24 610/3962 f 6/5 telescope, QHY 600M Pro camera, are 12 shots of which in Ha 3x300 seconds, in OIII 5x300 seconds and in SII 4x300 seconds, processing with Pixinsight and Photoshop. All data and shots were captured with Telescope Live. The Pillars are three very dense structures of gas and dust located in the southeastern edge of the Eagle Nebula; They were created by the action of the stellar wind of the giant stars of the central open cluster. Their cataloguing follows the ascending Roman numerals, so the individual structures are called Column I, Column II, and Column III, proceeding from northeast to southwest. The morphology and ionized structure is well known thanks to the advent of space telescopes: the ionizing radiation coming from the stars of the cluster compresses the gases of the molecular clouds increasing their pressure at the surface, while a photoevaporating flow of ionized material is generated on the opposite side of the source of the stellar wind; This is the phenomenon responsible for the "pillar" structure of clouds.
The lower-density matter is the first to be swept away, while the denser core, further compressed due to the shock wave front, survives, resisting the force. However, near-infrared images show that the first two columns have a relatively sparse structure, concentrated by much denser cores that defend it from the disruptive action of the wind. To the southeast of the Pillars is another molecular nebula structure, cataloged as Column IV, located near a known Herbig-Haro object, HH 216.
The total mass of the dense areas of the three Pillars is estimated at 200 M☉. The ionizing stars in the columns are located 2 parsecs away from them.