The Eagle Nebula is an emission nebula that lies in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way (Constellation Serpens). It is an active star forming region located approximately 5700 light-years away. At the very center are the famous “pillars of creation”.

This image was made with a Nikon Z7II and a Nikon 600mm f/6.3 lens with a 1.4x teleconverter for a total 840mm focal length at f/9. Total exposure time was a little over 28 minutes via 43 40s exposures at ISO 3200. Star tracking was done with a Fornax LighTack II. Aligned images from Deep Sky Stacker were stacked and stretched using Python algorithms. Some final image processing was done with Topaz DeNoise AI and Capture One.