The Pillars of Creation (Eagle Nebula - M16) - CDK1000 - El Sauce Observatory (Filippo Scopelliti)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Serpens (Ser) · Contains: Eagle Nebula · HD168075 · HD168076 · HD168137 · IC 4703 · LBN 67 · M 16 · NGC 6611 · Sh2-49 · Star Queen · Star Queen nebula

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The Pillars of Creation (Eagle Nebula - M16) - CDK1000 - El Sauce Observatory

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The Pillars of Creation (Eagle Nebula - M16) - CDK1000 - El Sauce Observatory

A few months ago I found a series of astronomical images so beautiful that they left me literally speechless. Those were Mike Selby's images, obtained with a CDK1000 from El Sauce Observatory. This is an altazimuthal telescope and it is well know that for some aspects altazimuthal instruments present some problems in post-processing. My instrument is also altazimuthal, although it is not comparable in quality and diameter, it presents the same difficulties. I then asked Mike for some advice to solve certain problems and what happened was that, not only I had all the answers to my questions, but I received fundamental advice and teachings on astrophotography processing in general. I also had the privilege of receiving many Raws to put into practice the techniques I have learned. I have had the great pleasure of processing in the best possible way for my knowledge and skills those data, trying to show my interpretation of those subject. I begin to present the one that most impressed me for the amount of details that I tried to show with no little difficulty, and others of magnificent subjects will follow. I thought it was easy to process perfect data, but it is very complex because the risk of making them worse is high and because it would be a shame not to pull out all the information they contain.
The subject of this image is obviously a detail of the Eagle Nebula (M16 or NGC6611 in the Serpent constellation).
This is a Ha-OIII-SII narrow band tri-color image processed in Hubble Palette.
Data obtained and calibrated by Mike Selby with the Planewave CDK1000 from the El Sauce Observatory, which I had the privilege of processing.

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RA (center)	18h18m54s.504
RA (top/left)	18h18m19s.973
RA (top/right)	18h18m19s.950
RA (bottom/right)	18h19m29s.660
RA (bottom/left)	18h19m29s.200

Dec (center)	-13°49′24″.11
Dec (top/left)	-13°41′00″.54
Dec (top/right)	-13°57′47″.22
Dec (bottom/right)	-13°57′46″.44
Dec (bottom/left)	-13°41′00″.21

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