The Eagle Nebula (M16) - a photo on Flickriver

A HaOIII narrowband image of the Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16, M16, or NGC 6611).

The Eagle Nebula is part of a diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, which is catalogued as IC 4703. This region of active current star formation is about 7,000 light-years from Earth.

A spire of gas that can be seen coming off the nebula in the north-eastern part is approximately 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers long. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the "Pillars of Creation".

About this image:
This image consists of old narrowband Hα and OIII data, that I reprocessed after combining it with more data that I recently imaged.

The Hydrogen dust and gas (the most basic and abundant element in the Universe), emits in the Red part of the spectrum, and the doubly ionized Oxygen emits in the Blue part of the spectrum.

Wavelengths of light in this image:
Hydrogen Alpha line 656nm (7nm bandwidth).
OIII line 500.7nm (6.5nm bandwidth).

Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.

Plate Solving:
Platesolve 2 via Sequence Generator Pro.

Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 274.716, -13.820
Center RA, hms: 18h 18m 51.796s
Center Dec, dms: -13° 49' 11.111"
Size: 60.8 x 40 arcmin
Radius: 0.606 deg
Pixel scale: 2.21 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 9.62 degrees E of N
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Taken on: April 6, 2019

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