This nebula was made famous by the Hubble Telescopes stunning high def image showing the now famouse “Pillars of Creation”. If you zoom in on the image toward the middle, you can make out the pillars. I am amazed that this capture, from my driveway, actually shows them in pretty clear detail. The image was taking in May 2024 with about 4 hour of total exposure time, with 10 second sub images. Later stacked internally on the Seestar and slighly touched up with Google Photos.
Here is some informaiton from Wikipedia.
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the “Eagle” and the “Star Queen” refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula,[4][5] an area made famous as the “Pillars of Creation” imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation. The Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.
