More M16

Image of M16 from an anonymous source

Paul Scowen of the

Arizona State University has obtained this image og M16 using the Palomar

Observatory 60-inch telescope.

Like in the Hubble images of M16, the image

is a false-color photograph, which was colored as follows:

Red represents [SII] emission, which is really red to our eyes,

green is H alpha light, which is also red to our eyes

(some 20 nm shorter in wavelength than [SII]), and the blue channel is

[OIII] which is actually green to our eyes.

• More Earth-bound images of Paul Scowen

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• AAT images of M16
• November 1995 Hubble shots of M16
• Amateur images of M16;

  more amateur images

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