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Triplet APO 714mm, Canon 80D
Stacked, stretched and calibrate.
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation. This region of active current star formation is about 5700 light-years distant.