4.7.18

pillares

cluster and nebula m16 eagle in serpens cauda
700d on 250p    26x240s @ ISO800
This is a bit more like it. The old secondary mirror in the big reflector, better stars but loadsa turbulence low to the south over La Nucía and then the moon so, a little further than the next town at 7000 light years and first noted by Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux in Lausanne in 1745–46 a dreamy nebula captured in the rather nice ekos under Ubuntu...