M16 The Eagle Nebula (Doug Summers)

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

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M16 The Eagle Nebula

Messier 16, the Eagle Nebula, lies about 7000 light years away in the constellation of Serpens. The nebula occupies an area of roughly 70 x 55 light years, and has it's own designator of IC4703. The open cluster is NGC 6611. The whole star forming region is very young, with many O type stars that are up to a million times more luminous than our star. The age of the star cluster is estimated at 2 million years old. Of course, the pillars of creation, made famous by the Hubble image from 1995, are in the center part of the image.

I captured a few frames of this last year at my home, but the vast majority of the subs were collected this year while visiting the TAAA CAC dark site in southern Arizona. I intend to revisit this object to gather more data for it in the future, but I consider this a good start.

Truth in advertising; I've recently purchased a Topaz bundle, and I've added just a touch of sharpening (via mask control) to the pillars region in the image. I am experimenting/learning Topaz, but I intend to keep it on a "very tight leash". I don't mind subtle sharpening (the goal), but I definitely don't want Topaz to generate fake detail(s)!

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