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Object name: M16 - Eagle Nebula   Optics:   TEC 180 FL with original flattener
  Objekt type: Emission nebula   Focal lenght:   1260 mm
  Constellation: Serpens   Camera:   FLI ML 16803-65
  Location / Date: Remseck / August 2012   Exposure:   2 x 1800 sec Ha / 2 x 1800 sec OIII / 2 x 1800 sec SII
  Distance: approx. 7000 ly   Filters:   Astrodon 3 nm narrowband filters
  Apparent dimensions: -   Mount:   10micron GM2000 HPS
  Real dimensions: approx. 70 x 55 ly   Autoguiding:   Off-Axis Guider - SX Lodestar
  Brightness: approx. 6.9 mag   Software:   MaxIm DL / Registar / Photoshop CS5 / PixInsight
  Position (R.A. / DEC): 18h 18' 48" / -13° 49'   Image processing:   Tone mapping according to real colors
 
 


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M16 - the" Eagle-Nebula" contains the very famous "pillars of creation" and is part of a huge diffuse HII region catalogued as IC 4703.
The tower of gas left side of the pillars is about 9.5 light years high.