Faulkes Telescope Observations
Eagle Nebula
Eagle Nebula. Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope
North, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. Click on image to enlarge.
We submitted a request to the 2m telescope at Siding Spring to observe the
Helix Nebula and the 2m telescope at Haleakala to observe the Eagle Nebula on
the 15th of September. When we received the pictures, our picture of the
Helix Nebula was faded and the picture of the Eagle Nebula wasn't like the
ones we had seen of it on the internet. But then we decided to add colour to
the Eagle Nebula using
DS9 which allowed us
to use three pictures of the Nebula all at once, this helped to make the
picture look better, we were only expecting to change the colour of the stars
that was in the picture but when we added red we were surprised to see that
we had a picture of the Pillars of Creation and a lot more stars. We also got
a good picture of C/2013 A1 Siding Spring which is a
comet that will pass
very close to Mars and its tail will pass through Mars' atmosphere on the
19th October. We had submitted requests to observe other Nebulae and
comets,
not all of the pictures were taken but we obtained some other
comets and near
Earth asteroids.
We would like to thank the
Faulkes Telescope Project and
Las Cumbres
Observatory for giving us this telescope time and making these
observations possible.
Matthew and Marc Devlin
2014 September 19th
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Last Revised: 2014 September 19th
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