Eagle Nebula (M16) - modded DSLR

[glowingturnip]

Here's my latest, hope you like it !

17x 300s lights at ISO1600, darks, flats and bias, equipment as per sig, modded DSLR at prime focus, Pixinsight processing.

I actually took this back in July, but had a frustrating gap in processing when my laptop broke and had to be sent to Germany for repair - I had all the raw files backed up, but not the interim processed files nor the calibration files.  There's a bit of coma still showing on this, but I think I've managed to get my spacings right now for some later runs still in my processing queue.

The Eagle Nebula (M16, NGC 6611) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens. Its name derives from its shape that is thought to resemble an eagle. It contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the famous "Pillars of Creation", photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope (and by me).

The Eagle Nebula is part of a diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, which is catalogued as IC 4703. This region of active current star formation is about 7000 light-years distant. A spire of gas that can be seen coming off the nebula in the northeastern part is approximately 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers long.

The cluster associated with the nebula has approximately 460 stars, the brightest of spectral class O, a mass of roughly 80 solar masses, and a luminosity up to 1 million times that of the Sun. Its age has been estimated to be 1–2 million years.

C & CC welcome, hope you enjoy !

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice indeed

[xtreemchaos]

now thats 2 nice images mate, lovely colour and detail.  thanks for sharing  charl.

[Owmuchonomy]

Nice to see a DSLR picture of this object since it's too low for me to capture up 'ere. Very nice Stuart.

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Well done, the pillars are showing up very clearly.

[glowingturnip]

thanks all 

[StuartJPP]

Great job...

[StargeezerTim]

Lovely image...  would love to have a go at M16 but I would have to knock down down my neighbours house and fell loads of their trees to see it....

[laudropb]

Very nice images. Thanks for posting.

[KY Cygni]

my favourite target the 95 Hubble image blew my mind and its still blown