M16, The Eagle Nebula

Is described here in Wikipedia.

It is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, its name derives from its shape that is thought to resemble an eagle. It is the subject of the famous "Pillars of Creation" photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows pillars of star-forming gas and dust within the nebula.

I imaged it with the 16" Meade and SBIG ST-2000XCM one shot colour CCD camera. 8 frames of 5 minutes exposure were captured using CCDOPS software. This was also used to calibrate the light frames and to stack them into a final image which I then further processed in Photoshop CS3.