M16 widefield with a stock DSLR (Olga W. Ismael)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Serpens (Ser) · Contains: Checkmark Nebula · Eagle Nebula · IC 4701 · Lobster Nebula · M 16 · M 17 · NGC 6561 · NGC 6596 · NGC 6604 · NGC 6605 · NGC 6611 · NGC 6618 · NGC 6625 · NGC 6631 · Swan Nebula · omega Nebula

M16 widefield with a stock DSLR, Olga W. Ismael

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M16 widefield with a stock DSLR

M16 is a tricky object to photograph with an unmodified DSLR, mainly when using a widefield lens. With the presence of a crowded field, the absence of gradients helped me a lot in achieving an interesting color balance. Also, the amount of emission nebulae was really unexpected. I only invested 2 nights in this object and I am very happy with the final result. At first, I hesitated to try this region without modifying my camera, but now I see that if you have great skies, it's worth the try!

Particularly, I find the zoomed in view interesting. I higly reccomend opening the image in full resolution and drift through this busy and colorful starfield. I processed in the most natural way and without intervention, to maintain the quality when giving a considerable zoom to the pillars of creation and the omega nebula. Revision B is therefore a slightly lowered histogram version, to provide better contrast for the bright core of these nebulae, or if you have a brighter screen.

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Description: Lowered midpoint for increased contrast on the bright cores.

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Low-Cost Astrophotography
Women Astrophotographers
N.I.N.A. Users
Unmodified DSLR Deep Sky
Objects of the South - negative declination only

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