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M16 Eagle Nebula, Jason Coon
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M16 Eagle Nebula

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M16 Eagle Nebula

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This target is very low on the horizon for me, it never gets about 28° elevation at my location.  I tried it last year, inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope's famous "Pillars of Creation" photo.  I was trying to do better this year and I think I succeeded.  I spent three nights on this (its late June so our nights are only 4-hours long), but I ended up not using it the third night's data, I don't think the seeing was very good.  So here is about 7 and half hours on The Eagle Nebula.

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M16 Eagle Nebula, Jason Coon