It’s a challenge to image dark nebulae in light-polluted Flanders. So let’s try it!
This is the “little eagle” nebula, which I captured a few years ago as a tiny spot on a wide-field Plejades @180mm. Now the framing only features the Eagle head ; imaging with the Esprit and the ASI183mm.
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It’s a bit dark – but what did you expect from a Dark Nebula? This is 10x300seconds on R, G and B channels and then 29x300s on Luminance. No Light Pollution filter used.
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This is the overview, with on the right the Pleiades, and on the center left the Eagle Head (upside down).