Location / Date:

Tivoli, NAM / 2.Juni 2014

Telescope / Lens:

Starfire 127/1040

Mount:

AP1200

Camera:

Central DS Canon 60Da

Exposure time:

11x900" ISO500 -12C

Total exposure:

Description:

M16 is a very young star cluster surrounded by emission nebulae in a distance of about 5,500 to 7,000 light years. The first stars started to emitt their light about 5 million years ago. Maybe the oldest stars are not older than one million years, the youngest members of this cluster are aged some 10,000 years. These stars are very hot, luminous blue giants of type O6. Many stars are still developing and hide themselves in the so called elephant trunks. These structures are build by the strong and intensive radiation of the young stars impacting the cold dust and gas that was located there. In these columns several globulae have been identified. Here we are witnessing the birth of a new star or a planetary system. 

Image recording:

Gorden Konieczek

Image processing:

Nico Geisler, Frank Iwaszkiewicz, Gorden Konieczek