{"id":340,"date":"2025-11-05T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/?p=340"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:53:20","slug":"m16-eagle-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"M16 &#8211; Eagle Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>M16 is located in the Serpens constellation and best viewed in the summer months. The Eagle Nebula is an example of an emission nebula. These nebulae emit various wavelengths of light due to ionizing radiation being expelled by nearby star-forming regions. This is in contrast to a reflection nebula which only reflects the light of nearby stars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The M16 nebula is famous for a particular photograph taken by Hubble of one of its star-forming regions: Pillars of Creation. This hand-like structure is massive in size, spanning multiple light-years in distance. It a hot mix of dust and gas that is constantly forming new stars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was very surprised by the quality of the picture compared to the amount of data I have gathered. This nebula can be a bit tricky due to it being fairly low to the horizon combined with not a lot of imaging time due to shorter summer nights. This meant I only have about 45 minutes of data in this particular picture. I really do find this to be one of the prettier nebulae out there and will gladly spend more time on this one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have added a zoomed in version of the Pillars of Creation aswell!<\/p>\n\n\n            <div id=\"gutentools-image-slider-block-3848686b-74e8-475c-8f48-e06740949007\" class=\"gutentools-image-slider-block\">\r\n                <div class=\"gutentools-image-slider-wrapper\">\r\n                                            <div class=\"slick-slider gutentools-image-slider-init\">\r\n                                                            <div class=\"gutentools-image-slider\">\r\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1756413389181.jpg\" \r\n                                         alt=\"\" \r\n                                         class=\"gutentools-slider-image\" \/>\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                                                            <div class=\"gutentools-image-slider\">\r\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eagle1.jpg\" \r\n                                         alt=\"\" \r\n                                         class=\"gutentools-slider-image\" \/>\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                                                            <div class=\"gutentools-image-slider\">\r\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/M16-ZOOM.jpg\" \r\n                                         alt=\"\" \r\n                                         class=\"gutentools-slider-image\" \/>\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                                                    <\/div>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            \n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M16 is located in the Serpens constellation and best viewed in the summer months. The Eagle Nebula is an example of an emission nebula. These nebulae emit various wavelengths of light due to ionizing radiation being expelled by nearby star-forming regions. This is in contrast to a reflection nebula which only reflects the light of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13,32,31],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astrophotography","category-deep-space-objects-otherwise-known-as-dsos","tag-dso","tag-m16","tag-nebula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.robinmorent.ikdoeict.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}