Image of the central region of open cluster M16 and the Eagle Nebula by Jack Newton. The dark gaseous "Elephant Truncs" are well exhibited in this view; this is the region portraited on the famous Hubble Space Telescope images of M16.

This image was taken by Jack Newton in East Sooke, British Columbia. He uses a Santa Barbara Instrument Group ST 6 CCD camera at the Newtonian focus of his 25 inch f5 telescope. The image is a tri-colour composite, approximately 5 minute exposures.

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More images by Jack Newton.

M16 and Eagle Nebula by Jason Ware

Another photo of M16 by Jason Ware

More images by Jason Ware

This CCD image of the Eagle Nebula and M16 was obtained with an Astro Physics EDF refractor by Brad Wallis and Robert Provin who kindly contributed them to our database, and are copyrighted. They may be freely used for private purpose. Use in non-commercial public html pages requires appropriate acknowledgement. If you should consider any for-profit use, please contact Robert Provin.

More images of M16

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Last Modification: 7 Jul 1999, 23:00 MET