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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...
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...
2 X 300" @ISO800 (dark, offset and flat correction). Canon 350D (unmodded) @ prime focus on a 102mm Mak Telescope with an EQ5 mount
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
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.
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
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
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
This photo was shown on the BBC show BBC Sky at Nigh 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,
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
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
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
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
Hubble processing attempt: Pillars of Creation
This gas and dust structure is a part of M16 (Eagle Nebula) and the most popular image captured by Hubble.
The pillars of creation are just dust and gas gravitationally bound and the intense radiation from nearby stars as well as stellar winds cause erosion of the structure. Hence the shape.
Processing this one was tough and there are many other versions too of it which I liked, might post them later. The key is to do the right histogram stretching in the first stage itself (FITS to TIF) and then do minor changes to those grayscale images in GIMP/PS.
Raw data credits: NASA/ESA Hubble Legacy Archive
Processing by: Nachiket Makwana
Software used:
- FITS LIBERATOR
- GIMP
- Lightroom
Blend of early blue hour foreground and sky from up on the bluff above this area as it got to astro-dark. Sky single tracked 3 minutes, f/4, iso 640
Catalogued as IC 4703, NGC 6611 and Messier 16, the Eagle Nebula in the constellation Serpens and associated open star cluster that illuminates it are among the most striking features of the deep sky. The dark star-forming pillars within are dense areas of gas and dust. This was a tricky target from my Colchester back garden, being low in the northern sky between neighbouring shrubbery. I stacked the best 70% of about 3.3 hours of 10" images over two nights in late June (when it hardly gets dark), taken at Gain 300 on the ASI585MC through a ZWO UV/IR cut filter. Sky-Watcher Explorer 150P on EQ5 Pro, unguided. Processed in AstroPixelProcessor, Lightroom and Photoshop.