Eagle Nebula Pillars of Creation (James R Potts)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Serpens (Ser) · Contains: Eagle Nebula · HD167811 · HD167859 · HD167899 · HD168046 · HD168047 · HD168075 · HD168076 · HD168097 · HD168136 · HD168137 · HD168183 · HD168207 · IC 4703 · LBN 67 · M 16 · NGC 6611 · Sh2-49 · Star Queen · Star Queen nebula

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Eagle Nebula Pillars of Creation

After a month of either clouds, high winds or being gone when we had good weather I finally had a few good nights of imaging. Here is my HOO take on the Pillars of Creation, not quite the Hubble colors, but this was as close as I could get without have a Su filter. I actually used a dual band (Ha/OIII) filter with my color camera, I then use APP to extract out the Ha and OIII and the used the RGB combine to create this image (plus a bit of PS tweaking).

I had to add a new focuser as the stock focuser would not hold the camera steady. I had to do some rigging to get the focuser on my scope and I now I have some tilt issues that I haven't figured out how to resolve, so don't look too closely at my stars, LOL.

M16 is about 7,000 light years away. The "Pillars of Creation", is a large region of star formation and is believed the small dark areas are protostars.

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Title: Cropped just the Pillars of Creation

Description: I messed and messed with this trying to get the colors similar to the famous Hubble image and ended up with an images that looks like a water color, LOL. I think I either need a lot more data or a lot bigger scope to get a respectable image of the Pillars up close.

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RA (center)	18h18m38s.654
RA (top/left)	18h17m59s.999
RA (top/right)	18h17m14s.598
RA (bottom/right)	18h19m17s.856
RA (bottom/left)	18h20m02s.663

Dec (center)	-13°49′41″.21
Dec (top/left)	-13°25′46″.98
Dec (top/right)	-14°05′21″.11
Dec (bottom/right)	-14°13′35″.21
Dec (bottom/left)	-13°34′00″.67

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