M16 Eagle Nebula
The Eagle Nebula is a very luminous open cluster of stars surrounded by dust and gas. The three pillars at the center of the image, made famous in an image by the Hubble Space Telescope, are being sculpted by the intense radiation from the hot stars in the cluster.
| Observatory: | WIYN Observatory Kitt Peak, Arizona |
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| Telescope: | WIYN 0.9-Meter |
| Instrument: | Mosaic I |
| Astronomer: | T.A. Rector and B.A. Wolpa (NRAO/AUI/NSF) |
| Date of Observation: | 06-15-2000 |
| Filters and Assigned Colors: | Oxygen [OIII] (blue), Hydrogen-Alpha (green) and Sulphur [SII] (red) |
| Exposure Times: | 5x6 minutes in each filter |
| Location of Image: | Serpens |
| Field of View: | 40 x 40 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is to the left and East is down |
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