M16 (NGC 6611) The Eagle Nebula in Narrow Band with BlurXTerminator (Ian Parr)

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

M16 (NGC 6611) The Eagle Nebula in Narrow Band with BlurXTerminator, Ian Parr

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M16 (NGC 6611) The Eagle Nebula in Narrow Band with BlurXTerminator

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M16 (NGC 6611) The Eagle Nebula in Narrow Band with BlurXTerminator

The Eagle Nebula (M16 NGC 6611) is a young open cluster of stars lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way in the constellation Serpens. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions.

The dark silhouette near the centre of the nebula is an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.

New Pixinsight tools are game changers, especially for backyard small instrument (5 inch refractor) acquisition (not shot with an 12 inch RC from the top of a mountain in Chile).

This another redo of data from 2021 savagely culled in sub-frame selector and re-worked with the latest Pixinsight tools; notably BlurXTerminator. It is run twice on each channel. Once with each channels' calculated PSF and Correct First enabled, and then with Automatic PSF for the eccentricity correction, before combining, Statistics, separation, Linear Fit, re-combining, and SpectroPhotometricColorCalibration. Liner to Non-linear in Globalised Hyperbolic Stretch and then Color Masking, Local Histogram Equalisation, Un-Sharp Mask, and cleaning up with NoiseXTerminator. As BlurXTerminator does such a great job on the reducing and rounding the stars I skipped the whole StartXTerminator separation process that brutalises the Stars and Starless as separate images before recombining with pixel math. GHS does such a great job no need in this instance.

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