Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  Eagle Nebula  ·  IC 4703  ·  M 16  ·  NGC 6611  ·  Star Queen
Eagle Nebula, Luca Fumagalli
Eagle Nebula
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Eagle Nebula

Eagle Nebula, Luca Fumagalli
Eagle Nebula
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Eagle Nebula

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Picture taken with a Skywatcher Quattro 10" + SBIG 8300m + RGB filters. The image size is about 1 arcsec/pixel.

The subject is the popular Eagle Nebula in Serpens. From Wiki: "The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula,[3][4] an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation."

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Eagle Nebula, Luca Fumagalli