M16 Wide Field

"The Eagle Nebula"

Constellation- Sagittarius

Right Ascension: 18h 19m 04s

Declination: -13° 47' 58"

Distance: 7,000 light years

Visual Brightness: 6.4 mag

Apparent Dimension: 35 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken-August 3, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -12C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- HaGB, Astronomik 14nm H-alpha, L = 10x 900 seconds binned 1x1, G and B = 6 x 900 seconds binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, custom sharpening and color combine in AstroArt 2.0