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Nebulosa del Águila (M16)
que incluye a los famosos Pilares de la Creación (recorte central anexado)
Seguimiento del proyecto que, en su versión preliminar, terminó formando parte de la portada del grupo de este mes (muchas gracias por su apoyo!!!), pero ahora con mas tiempo de integración (~13 horas) y en paleta Hubble (RGB=SHO).
La parte obscura de la foto está muy ruidosa, a pesar del tiempo de integración, aun así me sorprende que esta información salió de un telescopio de apenas 6 cm de diámetro.
Gracias por ver y comentar!
Datos:
Takahashi FS60Q = 600mm F10
Atik 460ex mono @ -5°C
Orion Atlas EQ-G
QHYminiscope + Altair GPcam2
Filtros Baader Planetarium:
Ha (7.5nm): 48x300"
O3 (8.5nm): 63x300"
S2 (8nm): 42X300"
(12 horas 45 minutos de integración total)
PI + PS
Cielo Bortle 6
Carretera Nacional, Monterrey, NL
Junio & Julio 2019
_vorOBSERVAtorio_
__Pavel Vorobiev
This photo was shown on the BBC show Night, Nicky, Nasa and the Next Frontier, August 12, 2024. It was a great honor. Thank you.
This is like the beginning of a joke. A Scary Face, a Star Queen, and a Swan walk into a bar...
Or if you want to try another one. A Scary face, an Eagle, and a Lobster walk into a bar...
Each one is a nickname for each nebula.
From left to right, NGC 6604, M 16, SH2-44.
Lens: Hasselblad 180mm f/4 CF
Mount: Losmandy GM811G
Camera: ASI2600MC Pro
Post Processing: Pixinsight,
The Eagle Nebula a beautiful region of active star formation. Its distance from earth is 7000 lights years and it is located in the next inner spiral arm of the Milky Way.
The nebula is a giant cloud of interstellar gas and dust (70 x 55 LY), and has already created a considerable cluster of young stars. With only 5.5 Million years of age these young stars are burning very hot and energize the surrounding gas in the eagle nebula. Right in the heart of the Eagle Nebula are the famous “Pillars of Creation”. These are areas with higher density of gas and dust. The interstellar material is dense enough to collapse under its own gravitational weigh, forming young stars that continue to grow as they accumulate more and more material form their surroundings.
Image taken at the Jenny Jump Observatory in NJ, USA
Telescope Orion EON 120, Camera Canon T1i
Pillar of Creation!!!
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Pillars of Creation(M16 or Eagle Nebula) is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, specifically the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light years from Earth.
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According to NASA,These towering tendrils of cosmic dust and gas sit at the heart of M16, or the Eagle Nebula. The aptly named Pillars of Creation, featured in this stunning Hubble image, are part of an active star-forming region within the nebula and hide newborn stars in their wispy columns.
Although this is not Hubble’s first image of this iconic feature of the Eagle Nebula, it is the most detailed. The blue colors in the image represent oxygen, red is sulfur, and green represents both nitrogen and hydrogen. The pillars are bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young stars located just outside the frame. The winds from these stars are slowly eroding the towers of gas and dust.
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Credit -NASA/HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
Processed by myself (Jashanpreet Singh)
Software used- Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
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I stacked 50 minutes of three and one minute single exposures, using HDR under Deepsky Stacker.
This nebulae was made famous by the 1996 Hubble Pillars of Creation image that focused on the nebulous pillars at the centre of this image.
The iconic photo of the Eagle nebula’s “Pillars of Creation”, showing three “trunks” of gas and dust forming new stars, was taken in 1995 by the Hubble telescope. In 2014, after installation of a new camera with twice the resolution of the earlier one, a new hi-def photo of the Pillars of Creation has been released – and this one is just as draw-dropping as the original.
reekoscience.com/science-news/space/new-jaw-dropping-hi-d...
From right to left, NGC 6604, M 16, SH2-44.
Lens: Hasselblad 180mm f/4 CF
Mount: Losmandy GM811G
Camera: ASI2600MC Pro
Post Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop, Lightroom
2 X 300" @ISO800 (dark, offset and flat correction). Canon 350D (unmodded) @ prime focus on a 102mm Mak Telescope with an EQ5 mount
SIMPLE = T / file does conform to FITS standard
BITPIX = -32 / number of bits per data pixel
NAXIS = 2 / number of data axes
NAXIS1 = 14281 / length of data axis 1
NAXIS2 = 8508 / length of data axis 2
NAXIS3 = 1 / length of data axis 3
EXTEND = T / FITS dataset may contain extensions
COMMENT FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format is defined in 'Astronomy
COMMENT and Astrophysics', volume 376, page 359; bibcode: 2001A&A...376..359H
BZERO = 0 / offset data range to that of unsigned short
BSCALE = 1 / default scaling factor
DATE = '2023-07-01T15:20:58' / UTC date that FITS file was created
INSTRUME= ' ' / instrument name
OBSERVER= ' ' / observer name
TELESCOP= ' ' / telescope used to acquire this image
XBINNING= 1 / Camera binning mode
YBINNING= 1 / Camera binning mode
CRPIX1 = 7161.54 / Axis1 reference pixel
CRPIX2 = 4258.18 / Axis2 reference pixel
CRVAL1 = 274.73 / Axis1 reference value (deg)
CRVAL2 = -13.8517 / Axis2 reference value (deg)
CDELT1 = 8.69976e-06 / X pixel size (deg)
CDELT2 = 8.69976e-06 / Y pixel size (deg)
PC1_1 = 0.0357599 / Linear transformation matrix (1, 1)
PC1_2 = 0.99936 / Linear transformation matrix (1, 2)
PC2_1 = 0.99936 / Linear transformation matrix (2, 1)
PC2_2 = -0.0357599 / Linear transformation matrix (2, 2)
HISTORY Histogram Transf. (mid=0.004, lo=0.000, hi=1.000)
HISTORY Asinh Transformation: (stretch= 14.0, bp=0.15587)
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Ha-6min x 3
Lum-4min x 3
Red-4min x 6
Green-3min x 5
Blue - 3min x 5
Camera - SBIG ST8300M
Telescope - Skywatcher 120ED
Mount - NEQ6
Processed with Adobe CS5 and
Nebulosity 3
A bit low in the frame but the gas and dust clouds made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope's image, The Pillars of Creation, are clearly visible in the centre of the nebula.
science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-night...
Messier 16, also known as the Eagle Nebula, is a fascinating celestial object located approximately 7,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It is a young star-forming region that is home to some of the most stunning and iconic structures in the universe – the Pillars of Creation.
The Pillars of Creation are towering columns of gas and dust that stretch over 5 light-years into space. They were first discovered in 1995 by the Hubble Space Telescope and have since become one of the most famous and recognizable astronomical images of all time.
These pillars are made up of dense molecular gas and dust, which are the building blocks of stars. The intense radiation from nearby young stars is sculpting and shaping the pillars, causing them to erode and break apart over time. Despite this, they are still actively forming new stars within their dusty confines.
The Pillars of Creation are not only visually stunning, but they also hold important clues about the formation and evolution of stars and planets. By studying the chemical composition and physical properties of the gas and dust within the pillars, astronomers can learn more about the processes that lead to the birth of new stars and planetary systems.
In addition to the Pillars of Creation, Messier 16 is also home to a cluster of young, hot stars known as NGC 6611. These stars are responsible for the intense radiation that is shaping and sculpting the pillars.
Overall, Messier 16 and the Pillars of Creation are a testament to the beauty and complexity of the universe. They remind us of the incredible forces at work in the cosmos and the ongoing process of star formation and evolution. As we continue to explore and study these structures, we will undoubtedly uncover even more secrets about the origins and nature of our universe.
Click on the image to view a larger version you can explore – and there is a lot to explore in this image!
I captured a wide-field image of M16 back in 2020, and then again in 2022. I guess I like to shoot this target!
See this image documented in Catching Ancient Photons on YouTube:
Image Info
Imaged from the KPO field, in Saint Cloud, Florida
Camera : ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Scope: Orion RC-12 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph, 2450mm fl, F/8
Mount: iOptron CEM-120
Hydrogen Alpha: 19 subframes of 300s = 95 min integration
Oxygen III: 12 subframes of 300s = 60 min integration
Sulphur II: 12 subframes of 300s = 60 min integration
Total integration time: 210 min = 3.5 hours.
Captured via ASIAir Pro automation
Optical tracking via ASIAir automation via the ASI1600mm Pro guide camera
Separate channels stacked and SHO4 integrated in Astro Pixel Processor
Image run through Super DeNoising
Final processing in Aperture
A cropped version. Also in SHO.
NGC6611, Messier 16, Sharpless 49, RCW 165, Cr 375, Gum 83 or simply the Eagle nebula is perhaps the most widely known nebula among non-astronomers. The region known as the Pillars of Creation became famous in 1995, when it was imaged by Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen using the Hubble Space Telescope.
While the pillars themselves take the central stage, there is plenty going on around them. This whole region is illuminated by the light of the open cluster (NGC 6611) of young, hot stars. It is surrounded by a large H II region (IC 4703), which is located around 7000 light years away.
The brightest start in the Eagle nebular (HD 168076) is a binary system consisting of an O3.5V star and an O7.5V companion. The star has roughly 80 solar masses and luminosity up to 1 million times brighter than that of Sun.
Image taken in Bortle 1 skies of Namibia, with Takahashi Epsilon 180ED on iOptron CEM70-EC2 mount, with ZWO ASI6200MM Pro and Antlia Highspeed 3nm Ha, OIII, and SII filters.
M16 Eagle Nebula is one of several iconic objects in the night sky that can be found in the Serpens Constellation. It is 7000 light years away and 70 by 55 light years across. Zoom in on the core and you’ll see the “Pillars of Creation” which was featured as one of Hubble’s famous images in 1995.
This is my first attempt at Monochrome processing. This photo of Eagle Nebula is presented in the SHO color pallet, which is the same pallet the Hubble Telescope uses.
18hrs 50 mins of integration time:
10hrs Oiii
7hrs Sii
1hr 50min Ha
Bortle class 4
Equipment: HEQ5 Pro | ASI Air Mini | William Optics Z61 w/ 61a field flattener | ZWO 533 MM Pro w/ 1.25” Filter Wheel | ZWO EAF | Optolong LRGB, Ha, Sii, and Oiii filters.
Processed in Pixinsight with some adjustments in Lightroom Classic. Weighted Batch Preprocessing. Combined channels with PixelMath. BlurXterminator (Correct only). Spectrophotometric Calibration to remove green cast. BlurrXterminator again for sharpening. StarXterminator so I could edit the nebula and stars separately. SCNR on star image. Narrowband Normalization to change the pallet to SHO and further color adjustments. Removed color noise and grain with NoiseXterminator. Stretched both star and starless image with Histogram Transformation. Did some more with Curves Transformation. Used Selective Color Correction for some more adjustments. Blended the star and starless image back together with PixelMath. Reduced star size with Star Reduction. Fast Rotation to get it upright. Saved as 16 bit Tiff and made some more adjustments in Lightroom Classic and cropped it a little tighter.
Composite image of the center of the Eagle Nebula using B (500s), OIII (900s) and Hα-band (900s) exposures. The dark towering structtures have been called the ’pillars of creation’, due to new stars being formed within them.
The Eagle Nebula
This is the famous Pillars of Creation located within M16, the Eagle Nebula.This image was captured for Hubble's 25th anniversary in September of 2014
Captured: September, 2014
Hubble Space Telescope Public Data was accessed on 8/11/2022 from registry.opendata.aws/hst.
NASA / ESA / Hubble / Johnny Taylor
Filters and Assigned Colors:
502n - Blue
657n - Green
673n - Red
Software: FITSLiberator, Pixinsight, Adobe Photoshop
M16 is a young star cluster located about 7,000 light-years away from us. It lies within the Eagle Nebula, a region surrounded by clouds of glowing dust and gas in the center of which are dense dark columns of dust and gas that were immortalized by the Hubble Space Telescope in the 1990s in the famous photo titled “Pillars of Creation,” because these dense columns can contract under the force of gravity to form stars.
While the object is easily visible from the Northern Hemisphere, the view from the dark skies of the Southern Hemisphere where it almost reaches the zenith is much better, allowing for great depth in the dust in just a few hours of exposure.
Technical data
System 1: ASA Newton 250mm, 900mm focal length, with ZWO ASI 6200 MM camera and 3 nm Chroma Ha filter from Rio Hurtado, Chile. 21x120s bin 2x2 Ha
System 2: Takahashi TOA 130mm apochromatic refractor, 780mm focal length, with SBIG STX-16803 and Astrodon E-Series RGB filters from Siding Spring, Australia. 5x300s bin 1x1 RGB
Open-filter exposure of the Messier 16 nebula, also known as the Eagle Nebula. The hydrogen clouds at the center-right of the image are the famous Pillars of Creation. Imaged via remote-controlled CCD telescope in La Serena, Chile
This eerie, dark structure, resembling an imaginary sea serpent's head, is a column of cool molecular hydrogen gas (two atoms of hydrogen in each molecule) and dust that is an incubator for new stars. The stars are embedded inside finger-like protrusions extending from the top of the nebula. Each "fingertip" is somewhat larger than our own solar system. The pillar is slowly eroding away by the ultraviolet light from nearby hot stars, a process called "photoevaporation." As it does, small globules of especially dense gas buried within the cloud is uncovered. These globules have been dubbed "EGGs" -- an acronym for "Evaporating Gaseous Globules." The shadows of the EGGs protect gas behind them, resulting in the finger-like structures at the top of the cloud. Forming inside at least some of the EGGs are embryonic stars -- stars that abruptly stop growing when the EGGs are uncovered and they are separated from the larger reservoir of gas from which they were drawing mass. Eventually the stars emerge, as the EGGs themselves succumb to photoevaporation. The stellar EGGS are found, appropriately enough, in the "Eagle Nebula" (also called M16 -- the 16th object in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of "fuzzy" permanent objects in the sky), a nearby star-forming region 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The picture was taken on April 1, 1995 with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. 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 emission from hydrogen. Blue shows light emitted by doubly-ionized oxygen atoms.
Imaging telescope / lens
Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain (SCT) 203/2032-2031 mm SCT 8''
Imaging camera
Sony Nex-5N (CMOS) - modified
Mount
Equatorial fork Clestron Evolution
Guiding telescope / lens
Svbony Refractor 50/190 mm
Guiding camera
ZWO Optical 224MC (CMOS)
Filters
Optolong Light pollution L-Pro 2.00"
Accessories
Focal reducer Celestron 2.00"
ISO800
Lights46 x 180 sec
Total integration time2:18 hours
Eagle Nebula (M16), 07/26/2020
Man have the skies been clear a lot lately! Prepare for a bunch of images once I get a chance to process them all. First time that has been an issue for me in the PNW.
This is the Eagle Nebula, an object I have shot before on different equipment. The Eagle Nebula is a 5.5 million-year-old cloud of molecular hydrogen gas and dust stretching approximately 70 light years by 55 light years. It lies about 6,500 light-years away. The “Eagle” itself in the center is the famous Hubble image, “The Pillars of Creation”. Its good to have goals. LOL
Equipment:
RASA 8
CGEM-dx mount
ZWO ASI294MC-Pro
ZWO Asiair Pro
Optolong L-eHhance filter
Details:
Location – My back yard in Tacoma WA
Bortle Class 8
Gain 120
64 180-second Lights
60 Darks
60 Bias
60 Flats
Astro Pixel Processor
Lightroom
Photoshop
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Painting By Zoe Watson of Star Constellation - Pillars of Creation painted in Acrylics, inks and other materials
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