Pillars of creation

[Nova2000]

Hi visual astronomers 

Can the pillars of creation be observed with a 6/8/10inch scopes? Of focal length 1150/1200?

Has anyone seen them in some other scope? 

[Davey-T]

I couldn't see anything visually in 10"SCT only the star cluster NGC6611 but that's from my LP suburban skies.

Dave

 

[Pondus]

With a filter and truly dark skies I think Messier 16is  fairly easy. I`ve read reports where observations With 8" or maybe 10" telescope have detected very faint fingers within the Eagle Nebula.

Not remotely Close to Hubble images, but of course.

Edit : I think I read about this in a filter comparison report somewhere..

Rune

[swamp thing]

Not seen them in my 20" Dob but.......I haven't actually looked  

Cal @estwing saw them in his 18" when observing alongside me at an extremely dark sky 

[estwing]

Yeah easy in mine at Elan valley...but dark skies rule and I think I was using an astronomik UHC filter?, the middle "finger" was easy but the one to the left was quite difficult 

[BeerMe]

The Horsehead and the Pillars are bucket list items for me.

Some day, somehow....

[estwing]

Not that difficult if you are prepared to travel to dark skies and be patient at the eyepiece 

[N3ptune]

I saw the Eagle nebula and Omega nebula with 31mm 2 inches EP and NPB filter, trough my 8 inches. With not much problems really, Eagle is much fainter and invisible without my filter.

[Davesellars]

While M16 is pretty large the pillars themselves are actually quite small - certainly I've not managed to see the pillars although I will be attempting them soon I hope with my 12".   Certainly a UHC filters brings out the best imho in M16 as a whole but perhaps quite a narrow OIII may be best get enough contrast to pull out pillars?  Dark to very dark skies certainly a requirement!

[Nova2000]

Perhaps I can try with the clubs C14 at a dark site