A Mega View of The Eagle Nebula

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Here is a Global Collaboration with Gordon Wright from Scotland, Colin Cooper from Spain, Kim Quick from Florida and Terry Hancock from Michigan

 

 

Lying in the Sagittarius arm of our milky way galaxy M16 The Eagle Nebula also known as The Star Queen Nebula (NGC 6611) is an open cluster and star forming diffuse Nebula cataloged as

IC 4703 some 7000 light years distant in the Constellation Serpens

 

 

I have now included data by Kim to provide additional detail to the central region containing The Eagle Nebula and The Pillars Of Creation.

 

 

Annotated and Full Size View here: nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/1293560

 

 

177 individual frames make up for this 3313 x 2623 pixel image, FOV is 1.78 x 1.36 degrees, 1.96 arcsec/pixel

Processed as Hubble Palette with SII mapped to red, H-Alpha mapped to green and OIII mapped to blue , Calibrated and Stacked with Pixinsight, Post Processing Photoshop CC and CS5, Registered in Registar

Total Integration time 32 hours

 

Exposure Times

H-Alpha 64 x 600, 31 x 900

O111 48 x 600

SII 34 x 600

Done