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M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Kyle Butler
M16 - The Eagle Nebula
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M16 - The Eagle Nebula

M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Kyle Butler
M16 - The Eagle Nebula
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M16 - The Eagle Nebula

Equipment

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Acquisition details

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Description

Exposure Details

35x 300s each of Ha, SII, OIII (Atik medium gain preset, bin 1x1)

50x Darks and flats for calibration

8.75 hours total integration time

Processing

Processed each channel individually

Frames calibrated and stacked in PixInsight, drizzle 2x

MLT noise reduction on each channel

Stretched each channel using HistogramTransformation

Combined using PixelMath (Red = SII, Green = Ha, Blue = OII)

DarkStructureEnhance

Final minor CurvesTransformation and ColourSaturation

Final touch ups in photoshop

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

M16 - The Eagle Nebula, Kyle Butler