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Messier 16 |
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 | Located in the constellation of Serpens, the Serpent, M16, 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. M16 in a pair of 10x50 binoculars resolves into a bright and fuzzy area with very small resolution. In a 8-inch scope at low power without any filter, there are no signs of nebulousity present, but it is a nice little cluster nonetheless. Near the north end there is a little arc of 6 very close stars, covering about 1.4 a circle. With a filter you can see some signs of the nebulousity around the stars in this area. In a 10-inch scope at 44x the Eagle Nebula looks beautiful. The cluster is in a vast diffuse nebula and is worth seeing. |
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Eagle Nebula M16 NGC 6611 Other description: Nebula with dust and cluster. Constellation: Serpens Dreyer description: Cluster, at least 100 stars large & small; = M16. Magnitude: 6.0 RA: 18h 19m 03.1s Dec: -13°47'02" RA: 18h 18m 48.0s Dec: -13°47'00" (Epoch 2000) Azm: 170°02'45" Alt: +29°24'00" Rise: 20:03 Transit: 01:10 Set: 06:13 Size:35.0' |