Wallpaper author:
Philip Yates
19 Nov 2021
The Eagle Nebula
The Eagle Nebula ,Messier 16 (also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens.
Making full use of 3.0 to grab some extra data from the archive to reprocess this object.
Dataset from which the image was processed
M16
17 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI ProLine PL9000
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 274.7 Dec -13.8
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................22 Mar 2020 - 08 Oct 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 91 | 1h20m | 53 |
| Halpha | 1211 | 17h50m | 53 |
| Red | 86 | 1h16m | 53 |
| Green | 93 | 1h22m | 53 |
| Blue | 88 | 1h16m | 52 |