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The Eagle Nebula M16 & The Omega/Swan Nebula Region, Terry Hancock

The Eagle Nebula M16 & The Omega/Swan Nebula Region

The Eagle Nebula M16 & The Omega/Swan Nebula Region, Terry Hancock

The Eagle Nebula M16 & The Omega/Swan Nebula Region

Description

This 2 panel Hubble Palette Mosaic shows a stunning duo of Nebulae lying in the Sagittarius arm of our milky way galaxy M16 The Eagle Nebula and also known as The Star Queen Nebula is a star forming region 7000 light years distant in the Constellation Serpens and M17 The Omega Nebula, also known as The Swan, Checkmark, Lobster and The Horseshoe Nebula is a HII region also approximately 7000 light years distant in the Constellation Sagittarius. Just below and left of centre is the large emission Nebula IC4701

I was fortunate to be able to capture more OIII data in this region last night.

Larger Annotated version here: nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/841516

Total Exposure 8 hours

Image details

Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI

Date of Shoot: August 15th, September 16th

H-Alpha 208 min, 26 x 8 min bin 1x1

OIII 160 min, 20 x 8 min bin 1x1

LRGB 144 min, 9 x 2 min eaach bin 1x1

QHY11 monochrome CCD cooled to -20C

Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph

Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition Maxim DL

Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack

Post Processing Photoshop CS5

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The Eagle Nebula M16 & The Omega/Swan Nebula Region, Terry Hancock