Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  Eagle nebula  ·  M 16  ·  NGC 6611
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Eagle Nebula (M16) and the Pillars of Creation, Rathi Banerjee
Eagle Nebula (M16) and the Pillars of Creation
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Eagle Nebula (M16) and the Pillars of Creation

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Eagle Nebula (M16) and the Pillars of Creation, Rathi Banerjee
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Eagle Nebula (M16) and the Pillars of Creation

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This is the first time I am trying to process a Hubble Palette image (SHO)... I'm pleased with the results, but please feel free to critique as harshly as you can... I can take it! Perhaps the stars look ugly? Or the colors look weird? Image is too dark?

Stacked and color combined in Astro Pixel Processor. Deconvolution, MLT Noise Reduction, Morphological Transformation, Magenta star removal using SCNR (performed in that order) in PixInsight. Final touch-up & ICC Profile assignment in Photoshop.

The Eagle Nebula photographed from my backyard using narrowband imaging filters. At the center of the image are finger-like dusty structures famously known as the Pillars of Creation — an active star and planet forming region. To give a sense of scale, these finger-like structures are about 3 to 4 times the size of our entire solar system!

Light from this beautiful region in space took over 7000 years to reach us, and it is believed that this intricate structure no longer exists (it was destroyed by an exploding star more than a 1000 years ago), and all we see now is the 7000 year old ghost of it (light from the past).

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Description: Further stretch and changed star colors to remove more magenta.

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Description: Added more OIII data and reprocessed.

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Description: Used Ha as LUM channel to bring out details in structures.

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Description: Star reduction

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Description: Brightness & contrast adjustment to bring out more details in the darker regions.

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Description: Collected a bit more SII data, discarded some bad frames, did a different SHO combination calculation to make it look more Hubble Palette-like.

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Eagle Nebula (M16) and the Pillars of Creation, Rathi Banerjee