The Eagle Nebula, M16
noirlab_noao-04086 September 18th, 2002
Credit: T.A.Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A.Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Located in the constellation of Serpens, the Serpent, the Eagle Nebula is a very luminous open cluster of stars surrounded by dust and gas. The three pillars at the center of the image, made famous in an image by the Hubble Space Telescope, are being sculpted by the intense radiation from the hot stars in the cluster. This image was created by combining emission-line images in Hydrogen-alpha (green), Oxygen [O III] (blue) and Sulfur [S II] (red).
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-04086/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-04086
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Eagle Nebula, M16, NGC 6611
- Credits
- T.A.Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A.Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2002-09-18T09:49:04
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-04086/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Mosaic I, Mosaic I, Mosaic I
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue, Green
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Sll, Olll, Ha
- Central Wavelength
- 672, 499, 656
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 274.745781385, -13.8303826832
- Reference Dimension
- 5477.0, 5610.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2738.5, 2805.0
- Scale
- -0.000118115659003, 0.000118115659003
- Rotation
- 89.800000000000054
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-04086
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-04086.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2022-02-26T08:58:44.388965
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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