Messier M17 Swan Nebula

Messier M17, also known as the Swan Nebula or The Omega Nebula is an emission Nebula located about 6000 light years from Earth. It is an action star forming region, the same as M42. M17 can be observerd in the constellation Sagittarius and is part of the Sagitarrius spiral arm of our own galaxy.
The pictures shows the Swan easily. The picture is the result of 18 exposures, stacked using Deepskystacker and editing using CS4.