M16 (Eagle Nebula)

From time to time I obtain data sets from remote observatories. One of my favorite providers is Deep Sky West with telescopes in Chile and New Mexico. One of the data sets I received, was data from the HII-region M16, located in the constellation Serpens.

M16 or NGC 6611 is actually the name of the open cluster, while the HII region is referred to as IC 4703. However, M16 is usually used for both the star cluster and the nebula.

The images were taken with the following equipment (DSW):

Data calibration and registration and the final processing was done with PixInsight.

The RGB bicolor result was as follows:

M16 in the Hubble palette HSO looks like this

M16 HSO palette

M16 annotated