Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  Eagle Nebula  ·  IC 4703  ·  M 16  ·  NGC 6611  ·  Star Queen
M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Kyle Butler
M16 - The Eagle Nebula
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M16 - The Eagle Nebula

M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Kyle Butler
M16 - The Eagle Nebula
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M16 - The Eagle Nebula

Equipment

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Acquisition details

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Description

Exposure Details
30x 600s Ha (Atik Med Gain Preset, bin 1x1)
60x 300s OIII (Atik Med Gain Preset, bin 1x1)
10.0 hours total integration time

Processing
Processed each channel individually
Frames calibrated and stacked in PixInsight, drizzle 2x
DynamicCrop to trim borders from dithering
DynamicBackgroundExtraction on each channel
EZ Processing Suite EZDenoise on each channel
Lightly stretch each channel to non-linear using HistogramTransformation
Combined Ha and OIII using PixelMath (HOO)
Remove stars with Starnet++
CurvesTransformation on starless image
ColorSaturation with luminance mask on starless image
Recombine stars with PixelMath, with slight star intensity reduction
EZ Processing Suite EZHDR
Final noise reduction and local contrast enhancement in Photoshop

Comments

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M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Kyle Butler