M16

"The Eagle Nebula"

Constellation- Sagittarius

Right Ascension 18h 19' 04s

Declination -13° 47' 58"

Distance 7,000 light years

Visual Brightness 6.4 mag

Apparent Dimension 35 arc minutes

Image info:

Date- June 7, 2004

Telescope/Focal length/Camera- Nexstar 11GPS @ f/7.04, ST-8XE NABG autoguided in CCDSoft Ver. 5.00

Integrations- Lum = 9 x 240 seconds binned 2x2, RGB = 5 x 240 seconds each

Processing- Flats and Darks, average combined in CCDSoft Ver. 5.00. Color combined in Astroart 2.0.