M16, The Eagle Nebula, SHO (Bob Rucker)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Serpens (Ser) · Contains: Eagle Nebula · HD168137 · IC 4703 · LBN 67 · M 16 · NGC 6611 · Star Queen · Star Queen nebula

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M16, The Eagle Nebula, SHO

Revision title: M16, The Pillars of Creation

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M16, The Eagle Nebula, SHO

Revision title: M16, The Pillars of Creation

This is one of my favorite objects in the night sky and I decided that I needed to give it another try with the EdgeHD 8. I'm still struggling to find a good workflow for getting a good SHO color palette. I might see about ditching the SII data and publish an HOO version as well.

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Description: Tried to soften the colors and boost the luminance to add more detail for the fainter nebulosity.

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Description: This revision uses the Foraxx SHO palette. I think I'm finally starting to get satisfied with the colors on this one.

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Description: Data was reworked into a traditional SHO palette using Bill Blanshan's SHO Normalization V5 pixelmath formulas. This helped pull out more of the peripheral nebulosity that my previous versions lacked.

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Title: M16, The Pillars of Creation

Description: Monsoon Clouds are slowing down acquisition of new targets. I was really impressed by the close up version of M16 done by AstroCatNZ so I decided to reprocess my M16 data for an up close look.

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RA (center)	18h18m57s.854
RA (top/left)	18h18m57s.916
RA (top/right)	18h18m24s.732
RA (bottom/right)	18h18m57s.792
RA (bottom/left)	18h19m30s.990

Dec (center)	-13°51′07″.100
Dec (top/left)	-13°43′02″.80
Dec (top/right)	-13°52′03″.47
Dec (bottom/right)	-13°59′14″.17
Dec (bottom/left)	-13°50′12″.41

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