M16 - Star Queen

[cometcatcher]

Messier 16, also known as the Eagle Nebula, Star Queen or Pillars of Creation. Captured in narrow band with the Hubble palette or close to it. Compared to HST below. HST is of course a lot better. But I'm glad to be able to capture something.

Skywatcher 300PDS 12" F5 Newtonian, ZWO ASI 183mm Pro, Svbony SII, Ha and OIII 7nm narrow band filters, 1274 x 30 seconds or about 10.5 hours.

Full field at Astrobin ---> https://astrob.in/xhg11l/0/

[rustigsmed]

nice close up Kev, you do good job of keeping that 12" f5 newt behaving on the EQ6!

[PKay]

Well done Kev :thumbsup:

Have you tried the star reduction utilities, or even some decon?

[CoolhandJo]

up close and personal! looks great and the colours are nice too. At the focal length the stars are going to show up everything and you have done well.

[Geoff45]

Beautiful colours Kevin. Interesting structure just right of centre at the top.
Geoff

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Russ. The NEQ6 tracks very smoothly - as long as there is no wind. It's only downfall.



This has actually been through starnet++ with stars added back in.



It's still a challenge getting round stars at this focal length on this mount. But best I can do.



Thanks Geoff.