Messier 16 - The Eagle Nebula (Bruce Rohrlach)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Serpens (Ser) · Contains: Eagle Nebula · IC 4703 · M 16 · NGC 6611 · Star Queen

Messier 16 - The Eagle Nebula, Bruce Rohrlach

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Messier 16 - The Eagle Nebula

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Messier 16 - The Eagle Nebula

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

The “Pillars of Creation” in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) located 7,000 light years away near the tail of Serpens. Also known as the Star Queen Nebula, this emission nebula lies in the Sagittarius-Carina inner spiral arm and surrounds a young open star cluster, a majestic sight.

The pillars are composed of cool molecular hydrogen gas and dust that are being sculpted and eroded by photo-evaporation caused by ultraviolet light of relatively close hot stars. The longest pillar (in the central-most pillar complex) is about four light years in length. These columns (which resemble stalagmites) are incubators of new stars. Inside the columns and on their surface astronomers have found knots or globules of denser gas, called EGGs ("Evaporating Gaseous Globules"). Stars (suns) are being formed/condense inside some of these ’EGG’ structures.

Still working on this image, and plan on collecting 3 times the existing exposure to intensify the otherwise ultra-faint signal of the Eagle Nebula.

Image created from 40 minutes exposure (stacks of 80 x 30 second exposures) through each of the ZWO Ha, OIII, SII filters (7 nanometer band-pass) that pass those emission lines. (Skywatcher 200mm/f5 Newtonian telescope, ASI1600mm Pro astronomy camera, Settings: Gain 250, Sensor Temperature -20C, Bin 1x1.

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