M16 Eagle Nebula and M17 Omega Nebula 15 Panel Mosaic in SHO (Ian Parr)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Serpens (Ser) · Contains: Checkmark Nebula · Eagle Nebula · IC 4701 · IC 4703 · IC 4706 · IC 4707 · Lobster Nebula · M 16 · M 17 · M 18 · NGC 6596 · NGC 6605 · NGC 6611 · NGC 6613 · NGC 6618 · Star Queen · Swan Nebula · omega Nebula

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M16 Eagle Nebula and M17 Omega Nebula 15 Panel Mosaic in SHO

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M16 Eagle Nebula and M17 Omega Nebula 15 Panel Mosaic in SHO

The Eagle Nebula (M16 NGC 6611) is a young open cluster of stars lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way in the constellation Serpens. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions. The dark silhouette near the centre of the nebula is an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Omega Nebula, also known as the Swan Nebula, is around 6,000 light-years from Earth and spans some 15 light-years in diameter. It is considered one of the brightest and most massive star-forming regions of our galaxy with an estimated 800 solar masses. The open cluster NGC 6618 lies embedded in the nebulosity and causes the gases of the nebula to shine from these hot, young stars. It is also one of the youngest clusters known, with an age of just 1 million years. Apparent magnitude is 6 and it is about 40 by 30 arcminutes in size.

While patiently waiting for some decent sky I have been sorting and deleting a lot of old images and where possible, digging out the usable data and applying new Pixinsight tools.
In this case the new GradentMergeMosaic process, which is a lot faster, using 15 old of SHO 180 second exposure data from the balcony of my old place on the coast in Freshwater.
Nonetheless 15 sets of images took a while to process and merge; even with a 24 Core Threadripper, 128 Gb ram and a RTX 3060 GPU witrh 12 Gb DDR ram fully enabled this took a whole day to assemble and get a result I was fairly happy with.

Never again. That's exactly why I got the RedCat 71.

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