Pillars of Creation (M 16), with stars
Almost eight hours of light through a long-focus telescope – with the stars left in.
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Buy in the shopAbout the object
The Pillars of Creation are columns of cold gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula (M16) in Serpens, about 6,500–7,000 light years away. They became world-famous through a 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image. Stars are forming inside the pillars while radiation from nearby stars evaporates their surfaces.
How the image was made
- Captured
- 24 July 2026 (start, several nights)
- Total exposure
- 7 h 45 min (93 × 300 s)
- Camera
- ZWO ASI2400MC Pro
- Focal length
- 2 856 mm
- Mount
- Celestron (ovládač CGEM/CGX)
- Location
- Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (home observatory)
- Calibration & stacking
- Siril 1.4.4
- Processing
- Adobe Lightroom 9.4.1 (Windows)
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