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Object
........................................... M16 - " Eagle
Nebula" - Pillars of Creation
Constellation .............................. Serpens
RA / DEC
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18h:18m.42sec /
-13° 49 m
Distance + Ap. Magnitude......... 7000 Light Years - 6.0
Date + Time ................................. 20/8/2015
Location ....................................
Remote imaging from
"Nunki
Observatory" - Skiathos
Optics .........................................
Officina Stellare Advanced RILA 400
f/5.25
Tools ..........................................
The SKY X
Camera .....................................
SBIG STXL11002
with
FW8G-STXL (Astrodon filters)
Exposure Time.......................
Ha 3nm: 12 X 600 sec , RGB : ---
More Details ...........................
Environment Temperature : 25oC Camera Temperature -35οC
Mount ....................................... Paramount
ME
Guiding .................................... Self guided
Processing Details ................ Photoshop ,
Maxim DL v6 , CCDStack 2
Notes ........................................ Weather:
Clear Transparence: Mediun Humidity : 70-75%
Target details .........................
Lying some 7,000 light years distant in the
constellation Serpens, close to the borders to Scutum and
Sagittarius, and in the next inner
spiral arm of the
Milky Way galaxy from us (the
Sagittarius or Sagittarius-Carina Arm) a great cloud
of interstellar gas and dust has entered a vivid process of star
formation. Open star cluster M16 has formed from this great gaseous
and dusty cloud, the diffuse Eagle Nebula IC 4703, which is now
caused to shine by emission light, excited by the high-energy
radiation of its massive hot, young stars. It is actually still in
the process of forming new stars, this formation taking place near
the dark "elephant trunks . |
