Now it’s time to show y’all the complete photograph of the M16 nebula taken last week with my 80 mm refractor telescope. Could manage to get lots of details in a relatively short total exposure time of only 9 hours and 45 minutes.
Dust, ionized oxygen, sulfur and hydrogen, stars in the making, bok globules, protoplanetary disks, Herbig-Haro objects, immense light-year distances… Ladies and gentlemen: yes the Pillars of Creation @ M 16 taken with an 8 cm aperture refractor.
Had the chance to capture this galaxy, M51, from my obsevatory in Mexico City this very week! Zoomed in beforehand to show you the details of this magnificent pair of interacting galaxies.
M16’s region close to the galactic center. Famous for featuring the Pillars of Creation, M16, popularly known as the Eagle Nebula, here resembles the face of a bearded man (can you make it out?).
Took this picture from my rooftop in Mexico City.
This turned out to be the last picture with my 130 mm Newtonian telescope. Unfortunately, high winds knocked it out despite my ZWO Mount had more than 11 pounds of counterweights to hold it in place. Anyway, the fact that I was able to capture 3 galaxies that are about 35 M-ly away makes me love my hobby no matter what.
I published a few weeks ago a widefield view of the Omega Glob Cluster with my Rokinon 135 mm lens. Couldn’t resist to try a closer look with my 130 mm newt, so I shot it again! Wouldn’t you have done the same? Love this yaw dropping cluster!
If I understood well, our cosmos at the beginning was a very dense but chaotic nebula. With inflation, it started to break into smaller clouds. Gravity pulled some of this gas and started to form stars. These stars, thanks to their energy, carved and shaped these nebulae.
Lower’s nebula, depicted in my attached picture, is a small remnant of this lengthy process.