Jun 29, 2025
Messier 16
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Messier 16
Gas and Dust Tower
We finally got some storm breaks so I spent two nights shooting at the Eagle
Messier 16, aka the Eagle Nebula
M16, NGC 6611 or The Eagle Nebula with the “Pillars of Creation” region.
Distance to Earth: 7,000 light years
Constellation Serpens
DSLR Canon Rebel T3i
Montcada i Reixac (Bortle 8)
Pinching Time
Varda experiments with undoing just a wee bit of history...
A sketch created for the Gnome Tome Challenge, inspired by the prompt "The Valar cannot undo history without undoing Ea"...
...which immediately made me wonder what "undoing Eä" would actually look like, before I wondered what the quote was actually referencing. After reading the relevant section in NoME I decided my initial mind's-eye imagery of stars and nebulae unforming would be far more fun to draw. And then I saw the mind-blowingly beautiful Pillars of Creation at the centre of the Eagle Nebula, which Varda said she was particularly proud of and that she'd gladly pose for me...
I really recommend watching this awe-inspiring 30 second video zooming into the aptly named Pillars of Creation at the center of this nebula (Varda's hand), which is an active star-forming region hiding newborn stars (ironically).
Photograph of the Eagle Nebula is courtesy of NoirLab at noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-04086
The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is the site of another region rich in star formation, aptly called the Pillars of Creation.
This image combines X-ray imaging from the Chandra X-ray Observatory with optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA
I imaged a few more nebulae last night.
Clockwise from upper left: Eagle, Pac-Man, Trifid, and Helix Nebulae.
All are about 50 minutes of data. Taken in a Bortle 4 site with a 4" refractor and a ZWO ASI224MC camera.
I missed galaxy season from that same site this year. That's something I'm really looking forward to.