Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  Eagle Nebula  ·  IC 4703  ·  M 16  ·  NGC 6611  ·  Star Queen
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M16 Eagle Nebula w/RC6, Brett Creider
M16 Eagle Nebula w/RC6
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M16 Eagle Nebula w/RC6

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M16 Eagle Nebula w/RC6, Brett Creider
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M16 Eagle Nebula w/RC6

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I caught those famous "Pillars of Creation" last year with the big 9.25" SCT, and it ended up as one of my now-late father's favorites. I decided to give the pandemic-purchased GSO RC6 Ritchey Creighton its 3rd light on those pillars. Shot between obscuring trees from the back deck, I managed a couple of hours worth of data that started out with guiding issues, but ended up decent in the last half.

It is sobering to see "dust to dust" in the conglomeration of gas and dust that breeds the stars, which will expel the elements for life in their deaths, leading eventually to a human father whose time had come to return to the dust.

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M16 Eagle Nebula w/RC6, Brett Creider