M16 Eagle Nebula
M16 Eagle Nebula
| This image of M16 is composed of six 20 second exposures summed together.
They were taken on top of Table Mountain near Wrightwood on July 4th, 1997
with my Meade LX200 10" F/6.3 telescope and a CB245 CCD camera.
I false colored this image so that some of the real faint portions of the nebula would stand out for viewing. This was not a color image originally. M16 (the Eagle Nebula) is located in the constellation of Serpens, near the Serpens-Scutum-Sagittarius intersection. This image is the same one the Hubble Space telescope has shown to have large star forming regions within the area around the dark central portion in the middle of the image. |
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