NGC 6611 or M 16 by John Glossop

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14 June 2010

NGC 6611 or M 16

Cootamundra, NSW.

This monochrome image is of NGC 6611, M 16 or as it is called, the Eagle Nebula in the constellation of Serpens. This remarkable object is both a nebulous haze and scattered open cluster of fairly bright stars at least 20 arc minutes across. In photographs the nebula is listed as IC 4703 and is some 35' by 28' and the stars contained within this nebula are young, hot O and B stars.

In the upper right of the image is the open cluster, TR32, it is some 5 arc minutes wide and shines at a magnitude of 12.20.

Takahashi TSA-120 fitted with a Takahashi 35 Flattener.

SBIG ST4000XCM
15 x 10 minutes @ -25c
Processed in CCDStack as a monochrome image. hide exif

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