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Eagle Nebula M16, Ben Loftin
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Eagle Nebula M16

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Eagle Nebula M16

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The Eagle Nebula will always be special to me. It was the first image I saw from Hubble that got me into Astronomy. So this is my first picture I have been able to take myself. I was a little worried with all the smoke haze and low elevation in Colorado but seems to have worked out better than I expected.

Celestron AVX Mount
Meade Series 6000
70mm Quad ED Astrograph f/5 Refractor
Meade Series 6000 50mm Guide Scope
ZWO ASI120MC - Guide Camera
ZWO ASI294MM - Main Camera
Optolong Ha SII & OIII filters

OIII: 30x 300sec
Ha: 60x 300sec
SII: 20x 600sec

Bortle: class 6
Elevation: 1758 meters
Location: South Denver
ASIAir Pro, guide/sequence etc.Pixinsight- weighted Batch/CC, dynamic crop, Pixel Math SHO above for RGB, HDRMT,
GIMP: black level eye dropper for RGB, Curves

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Eagle Nebula M16, Ben Loftin