The Eagle Nebula (Brian Boyle)

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With the NZ public holiday celebrating the rising of Matariki [Pleiades] to mark the Maori New Year, it has been a busy month for me, with a number of assocatiated astronomy events [public presentations, AP exhibition] but little collection of data. It's been a month since the roll-off roof on my observatory lived up to its name, as we have been largely stuck under a stubborn inversion layer. Nevertheless, I did manage to get one night plus two early evenings before the fog rolled back in, and I had a go at the Eagle Nebula.

It is not my favourite DSO - I think the extended nebula looks a bit ugly - but there is no denying the beauty of the core region. However, this region is so well known that I am not sure the world needs another image of it. Nevertheless, it serves as a good (re)training exercise after a month away from the 'scope, and it is sufficiently bright to be observed the marginal conditions between (and during) the fog.

Given the conditions, distractions and rustiness, I am actually quite pleased with the way it came out. Certainly, it is by far the best of my attempts at this object. The extra focal length of the RC8, coupled with the excellent RCAstro tools, really help with the detail in this nebula.

I hope you enjoy, and I apologise for posting an all too familiar object.

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RA (center)	18h19m00s.198
RA (top/left)	18h19m41s.640
RA (top/right)	18h17m47s.537
RA (bottom/right)	18h18m18s.594
RA (bottom/left)	18h20m12s.758

Dec (center)	-13°50′38″.35
Dec (top/left)	-13°36′07″.75
Dec (top/right)	-13°49′33″.42
Dec (bottom/right)	-14°05′08″.97
Dec (bottom/left)	-13°51′42″.25

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