Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  Eagle Nebula  ·  IC 4703  ·  M 16  ·  NGC 6611  ·  Star Queen
M16 in H-SHO, meeus
M16 in H-SHO
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M16 in H-SHO

M16 in H-SHO, meeus
M16 in H-SHO
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M16 in H-SHO

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I like this area of this sky a lot, and obviously the "Pillars of creation" story is quite fascinating.

Unfortunately the southern part of the sky is quite obstructed from my backyard so I had to image only 1.5 hours per night to collect data for this image. Despite this limitation and a quite mediocre seeing I think the result is quite satisfying.

This time I followed a bit different SHO processing protocol. The color components were first made starless and convoluted to reduce noise. Straight SHO combination was tweaked by using color masks and curve adjustment in Pixinsight. Then the stars were brought back by using H-alpha as Luminance.

Final processing in Photoshop with some additional Selective color and Curves tweaks and noise reduction for shadow areas.

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M16 in H-SHO, meeus