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M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Gianluca Beccani
M16 - The Eagle Nebula
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M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Gianluca Beccani
M16 - The Eagle Nebula
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The Eagle Nebula and the famous Pillars of Creation, in the Serpens costellation, imaged with the Hubble palette (SHO narrowband filters) from my polluted city sky. My original project was taking 30 hours at least, but once I processed 14 hours of data I was already quite satisfied; weather got worse and I stopped the integration, taking care of what was already on my hard-drive. This is my first attempt with star masks and a true SHO composition: the colours in this final version were achieved with Photoshop, while Pixinsight was used for a bit of deconvolution.
26x300" Ha
98x300" OIII
60x300" SII
27 dark/flat/darkflat for each filter

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M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Gianluca Beccani