Monday 4 June 2018

M16 The Eagle Nebula.

From this particular location M16 is low in the night sky and only just rises above the roof tops looking from my observatory, so imaging time is very limited. I only managed to capture two five minute sub-frames using each narrowband (H-alpha, SII and OIII) filters. I then combined the narrow band data with some old H-alpha and RGB luminance data. Using the Hubble palette
colour data to produce the final image. The telescope I was using my ten inch f/4.8 reflector, an Atik 383L mono CCD camera with PHD auto guiding.



M16 Pillars of creation

Narrowband + RGB