Eagle Nebula - Serpens
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| Perhaps one of the most famous and easily recognised space objects, the Eagle Nebula (also known as Messier Object 16, M16 or NGC 6611) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens. It is associated with a diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, which is catalogued as IC 4703. This region of current star formation is about 7,000 light years distant.
The Eagle Nebula was one of the space regions passed through during the famous opening "zoom out" shot of the movie Contact (1997). The Eagle Nebula, along with the Hourglass Nebula, was featured in the liner notes of Pearl Jam's 2000 album Binaural. |
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| Location | J65 Celbridge Observatory | |
| Date/Time (UTC) | 30 May 2006 03:00 | |
| Optics | 200mm SCT, F6.3 reducer | |
| Filters | None | |
| Imager | Meade DSI-C | |
| Mount | Astro-physics 1200GTO | |
| Exposure details | 31 images * 120 seconds | |
| Software | Maxim DL , Photoshop 7 | |
