H-alpha view of center.
| OBJECT |
M16 - Eagle Nebula ("Pillars of Creation") - (images are reduced-size | click images for full-size*) Distance: 7,000 light years |
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| Telescope | Takahashi TOA-130F @ f/7.7 | |
| Mount | Takahashi EM200 Temma II | |
| Camera | QSI 540wsg @ -10C | |
| Filters | Astrodon Ha (3nm), Astrodon Tru-Balance I-Series LRGB Gen 2 | |
| Guider | SX Lodestar | |
| Settings | 15x10min Ha, 4x10min L (bin1x1); 5x5min ea RGB (bin2x2); AstroArt5, CS4 (slightly cropped, 10xdarks/flats/fdarks/bias) | |
| Date/Location Notes |
27 August, 3 September 2017 - Las Cruces, NM Data collected over two nights. This image is LHaRGB, where Ha was used in combination with Luminance and Ha:R (80:20) was used for the Red channel. *Final/full-size images are zoomed to 150% to show detail. |