Posted by Davin Flateau on 1 Jul 2005 at 2:54 pm.
Filed under Astronomy.
Exploration Place Director of Theater and Media Services and Astronomy Magazine Contributing Editor Martin Ratcliffe shares this image of the Eagle Nebula, M16, taken a few nights ago from the grounds of Lake Afton Observatory near Wichita. Martin writes:
On Wednesday evening, Chad Hanson and I spent all night adjacent to Lake Afton Public Observatory to perform some CCD and film imaging. One target was the Eagle Nebula. This image of the Eagle Nebula was taken with an ST-2000XM CCD camera on a 4-inch Televue refractor from Lake Afton, near Wichita, KS on June 29, 2005. The image is a stack of 11 20-second exposures, totaling a 220-second exposure time, and the field of view shown has been cropped to show the main region of the nebula.
Other images taken were of the Trifid nebula, Lagoon nebula, and Dumbell nebula. I hope to post these images once they are processed.
