Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  Eagle Nebula  ·  IC 4703  ·  M 16  ·  NGC 6611  ·  Star Queen
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M16, Eagle Nebulae in Serpens, Guillermo (Guy) Yanez
M16, Eagle Nebulae in Serpens
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M16, Eagle Nebulae in Serpens, Guillermo (Guy) Yanez
M16, Eagle Nebulae in Serpens
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This is the final result after capturing extra frames in H-alpha, CLS and OIII on June 14th of M16.

The SII were not satisfying, so I decided not to continue with that imaging run.

On sunday June 7th, the moon glow was quite severe and added an unpleasant gradient,

which was removed from the CLS channel with relative success.

I decided to take an extra run of subframes two weeks later on June 14th under clear skies and moonless conditions.

It is pretty much all I could do for now.

Maybe the advice would be to avoid targets that are below 30 deg from a bright moon.

I might keep last night's H-alpha frames for future integration

as they were contrasty good frames and definitively drop the June 7th frames

Narrowband filters can help but they have limited capabilities under these circumstances.

The moon glow was serious business even for the CLS filter (I had to digitally balance severe sky gradient) due to the

angular proximity of this object and the moon on June 7th (18 deg).

Object Name: M 16

Name 2: Eagle nebulae

RA (Topocentric): 18h 20m 04.4s

Dec (Topocentric): -13° 50' 06"

Magnitude: 6,00

Transit Time: 01:26

Date: 7,14-06-2020

Constellation: Serpens Cauda

Constellation (Abbrev.): SER

Televue NP101is

Losmandy GM8

SBIG ST8300M

Astronomik (narrowband)

Processing: MaximDl5+DSS+GIMP

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