M16 - The Eagle Nebula

This image of M16 ("Eagle Nebula") was taken with a 20 cm (8 inch) Celestron SCT at f10 with an ST-6 CCD camera.

Magnitude: 6.0
Time/Date: 01:33:43 May 31, 1997
Exposure Time: 40 seconds
Post Processing: Mid Range and Historgram Modification.

This image of M16 was taken at f10 with my ST-5 CCD camera.

Magnitude: 6.0
Time/Date: 23:07:38 August 19, 1995
Exposure Time: 120 seconds
Post Processing Mid-Range Brighten.

This image of M16 was taken at f6.3 with an ST-6 CCD camera.
M16, is just 3o degrees North of the Swan Nebula, in Sagittarius. The Swiss astronomer De Cheseaux was probably the first observer of M16. He recorded it in 1746 as "a cluster of stars between the constellations of Serpens, Sagittarius and Antinous". Messier, in June 1764, saw it as " A cluster of small stars enmeshed in a faint light. This is by far the one nebula I like the best, and have spent a few hours looking at it in my telescope, and wondering what else is out there that we have yet to see?

Magnitude: 6.0
Time/Date: 23:35:03 June 28, 1997
Exposure Time: 200 seconds
Post Processing: Unsharp Mask

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