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Pillars of Creation, vikas chander
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One of the most iconic photographs ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is of the elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula. These pillars of  gas and dust are in the process of creating new stars…… and the NASA scientists aptly called the image as the Pillars of Creation….

The imaging was done by a group of astrophotographers who shared the costs of renting the 1 meter scope in the ChileScope Observatory, and we call ourselves SHARA – standing for Shared Remote Astrophotography!!

2 panel mosaic

Sii = 1h20m per panel
Ha =  1h per panel
Oiii = 1h20 per panel=MsoNormal
Total integration = 7h20m

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Pillars of Creation, vikas chander