Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  Eagle Nebula  ·  IC 4703  ·  M 16  ·  NGC 6611  ·  Star Queen
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Pillars of Creation (M16), Awni Hafedh
Pillars of Creation (M16)
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Pillars of Creation (M16), Awni Hafedh
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June 15, 2020 - Pillars of Creation (M16)

Here is a fun fact about this image, back at Covid time light and smoke pollution dropped dramatically, usually I would not shoot any target towards the South back then because that's where downtown Detroit is and mostly I will get nothing useful, but with less light pollution I gave it a try and the data was okay but not really sharp because of bad seeing or something.Fast forward to now, with the help of BlurXTerminator I decided to give this old data another try and boy oh boy I am blown away with the amount of details that I am able to produce.

I did a comparison with Hubble's image and it is seriously not that bad.

I captured 25x4min for H-Alpha filter, 24x4min of Oiii filter and 34x4min of Sii filterwith a total exposure of 5.53 hours. Only used PixInsight and Luminar4 to produce this final image, I hope you like it.

Equipment used
Celestron 9.25" with 0.7x reducer
ZWO ASI1600MM Camera
Astronomik Ha, Oiii and Sii filters
iOptron CEM60 mount

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  • Pillars of Creation (M16), Awni Hafedh
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  • Pillars of Creation (M16), Awni Hafedh
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  • Final
    Pillars of Creation (M16), Awni Hafedh
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Pillars of Creation (M16), Awni Hafedh