(M 16/IC 4703, NGC 6611)
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Celestron Fastar 8 at f/1.95, PixCel 237. A 600 second exposure consisting of five 120 second images Track and Accumulate. Unguided at -14.89 degrees Celsius. Post processed with CCDOPS v4.00, log scaled and sharpened. The Eagle, or Star-Queen, Nebula was made famous by recent Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The dark nebulae highlighted in these images are visible near the center of the nebula. NGC 6611 is the associated open cluster.