M16

Name: The "Eagle" Nebula.

Constellation:Serpens

Instrument:8-inch F5 reflector with Sky Watcher coma corrector and a modified Nikon D3300.

Exposure time: A stack of 16 five-minute exposures at ISO 800.

Star Chart from Michael Vlasov's Deep sky hunter star atlas available on line https://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html

			AP#81 : M16
			Name: The "Eagle" Nebula. Constellation:Serpens Instrument:8-inch F5 reflector with Sky Watcher coma corrector and a modified Nikon D3300. Exposure time: A stack of 16 five-minute exposures at ISO 800. Star Chart from Michael Vlasov's Deep sky hunter star atlas available on line https://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html


	Magnitude: 6.4 Angular size: 70'x50' This is object is an open cluster and emission nebula. The "Eagle" shape is created by the feature in the nebulosity near the cluster. It is also the same object that was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope and identified as "the pillars of creation". Go to AP#82 M17 Return to AP100 main page.