Eagle Nebula in SHO (The Pillars of Creation) (William Gottemoller)

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

Eagle Nebula in SHO (The Pillars of Creation), William Gottemoller

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Eagle Nebula in SHO (The Pillars of Creation)

The Eagle Nebula is a massive emission nebula located around 5,700 light years away in the constellation of Serpens. It is an iconic star forming region, perhaps best known for the Hubble image taken of the "Pillars of Creation," three columns of gas near the center of the nebula. At only 1-2 million years old, the stars formed in the Eagle Nebula are incredibly young, bright and massive: the brightest star formed in the nebula, HD 168076, has a mass of 80 solar masses and a luminosity of over 1 million solar luminosities.

The Eagle Nebula has a lesser-known designation, "The Star Queen Nebula," introduced by American astronomer Robert Burnham to reflect his characterization of the central pillar (the middle pillar in the three pillars towards the center of the image) as resembling the Star Queen shown in silhouette.

The Eagle Nebula is a rite of passage for an astrophotographer, as many M16 images (including this one) parody the color template first introduced in Hubble's Pillars of Creation, the Hubble Palette.

My image incorporates twelve hours of data in SHO, taken over many nights with the Milwaukee Astronomical Society Observatory's flagship imaging telescope, G-scope. As we are in Wisconsin, M16 is quite low, making the window to image it extremely small; thankfully, we had enough clear nights that aligned with my schedule for me to complete my integration before it got too low.

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