A star cluster around 2 million years young surrounded by natal clouds of dust and glowing gas, M16 is also known as The Eagle Nebula. This beautifully detailed image of the region includes cosmic sculptures made famous in Hubble Space Telescope close-ups of the starforming complex. Described as elephant trunks or Pillars of Creation, dense, dusty columns rising near the center are light-years in length but are gravitationally contracting to form stars. Energetic radiation from the cluster stars erodes material near the tips, eventually exposing the embedded new stars. Extending from the ridge of bright emission left of center is another dusty starforming column known as the Fairy of Eagle Nebula. M16 and the Eagle Nebula lie about 7,000 light-years away, an easy target for binoculars or small telescopes in a nebula rich part of the sky toward the split constellation Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake).
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 synscan Pro
Guiding: 9x50 finderscope, DMK21AU04, PHD guiding
Camera: SBIG ST2000XM
Filter Wheel: SBIG CFW9
Filters: Ha
CCD Temperature: 0 degrees Celsius
Constellation: Serpens
Date: June 29, 2019
Location: Korinthos - Greece - Albireo Observatory
Exposure
Ha=4x30min bin 1x1
Calibration: Darks, Flats, Bias
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