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M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Alex Ranous
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M16 - The Eagle Nebula

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M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Alex Ranous
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M16 - The Eagle Nebula

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M16 was one of the first targets I shot when I got back into astrophotography and got the new mount.  I used an SBIG STT-8300 and only grabbed about an hour for each filter.  I wanted to get a second crack at his with the more sensitive and smaller pixel QHY268.  I was hoping for a lot better resolution, but my seeing has been pretty crappy for the last month or two.  Even with the seeing and being so low in my skies, it came out ok I think.  To get closer to Hubble's pillars of creation, the scope may need to take a trip to Chili like all the cool kids are doing.

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