M16 - The Eagle Nebula

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M16, the Eagle Nebula. I’m not 100% happy with it, but it’s certainly my best Eagle Nebula to date. You can see the Pillars of Creation right in the middle. C11 + Hyperstar + Atik 460 Camera, 13 x HA, 9 x OIII, 16 x Sii, 2 minute exposures

I played around with the palette schemes to make a composite picture.
The bottom left and upper right quadrants are the classic “Hubble” palette.
In the upper left corner I mapped HA onto red – it would be the closest to what the nebula actually looks like… if we could see infra red.
The blue image in the bottom right is more fanciful.

Written on May 23, 2015