Image information: Combination of stacked, dark-subtracted, registered images. Mosaic of 2 x 20 x 15s unfiltered images. Image taken 01/07/2006 00:48.
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| Description: M16, the Eagle Nebula, lies in Serpens Caput, and is only visible at Keele
during the short summer nights. It is a young cluster of stars (at lower left) forming in the middle
of a dust cloud. The dust is illuminated and shows brightly here, while the dust in shadow obscures the background stars.
Image information: Combination of stacked, dark-subtracted, registered images. Mosaic of 2 x 20 x 15s unfiltered images. Image taken 01/07/2006 00:48. |
Physical information: Magnitude: 6.4, size: 7', aka Eagle Nebula.