The system is cataloged twice in Chip Arp's famous Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies: Arp 25 highlights the unusual one-armed morphology of NGC 2276, while Arp 114 refers to the interacting pair as a whole. bit.ly/4wyBeu3 🔭#Astrophotography🔭📷
Matthias Steinmetz
@galacticrave.bsky.social
Astronomer & Astrophysicist, Galactic Archaeologist & Simulator, Husband & Dad, Director @AIP_Potsdam, backyard astrophotographer
A rare shot onto the Extremely Large Telescope form a construction platform some 55m high (went where few man/woman have gone before)
Laser-Airplane interaction over Paranal last night testing the automated airplane detection system of Gravity+. 2890: plane approaching, 2891: plane crossing (laser is dimmer as it was partially switched off), 2892: laser on again. 30sec exposures
Sunset at La Silla Observatory with Venus and Jupiter teaming up. somewhat later, Mercury joined the party
sunset at La Silla Observatory with Venus and Jupiter teaming up
Abell 2151, the Hercules Galaxy Cluster, is a rich and dynamically active cluster of galaxies. Abell 2151 is notable for a high fraction of spiral galaxies, indicating that the cluster is still in the process of formation bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#Astrophotography🔭📷
Messier 85 and NGC 4394 form an intriguing pair of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, representing two very different stages of galactic evolution within the same field of view. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#Astrophotographie🔭📷
Sh2-176 is a very faint and relatively little-imaged evolved planetary nebula in Cassiopeia. Unlike compact, high-excitation planetary nebulae, Sh2-176 is highly evolved: the expelled shell has expanded and diluted over time bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#Astrophotographie🔭📷
NGC4051 is a fascinating barred spiral galaxy located about 33 million ly away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is both, an astrophysically relevant object and an excellent, visually intriguing target for deep-sky imaging. bit.ly/4lB3t68 📷#Astrophotographie🔭📷
I am sure I am going to enjoy next week ... meetings.aip.de/event/11/
The Legacy and Future of Large Surveys: The Milky Way in Context
A five-day meeting on large surveys, galaxy formation, and Milky Way archaeology in recognition of Matthias Steinmetz’s contributions in these areas. The Milky Way has become the key laboratory for un...
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NGC5907 is most well known for its very extended and multiple wrapped tidal tail - unfortunately one needs a very dark sky and long exposure times to capture that. But approaching full Moon, NGC5907 had a surprise for light-polluted city people: SN2026kid which
More night sky from my trip with @dorobaer and Bavarian science minister @markusblume75 to @esoastronomy Paranal Observatory. The only clouds over Paranal are the Magellanic Clouds. Only had 20 min before the Moon came out. bit.ly/4lB3t68 📷#astrophotography 🔭📷
Had the pleasure and privilege to accompany science minister @dorobaer.bsky.social and delegation to @eso.org Paranal Observatory. Good time to take a shot of Orion and surroundings, though I only had 1 hour before the near full moon came out ... bit.ly/4lB3t68 📷#astrophotography 🔭📷
NGC 3079 is a close to edge-on barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major. Its distance is about 50 Million light-years. According to SIMBAD it is a Seyfert II galaxy, ie it exhibits nuclear activity. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography 🔭📷 36 Sek.
My attempt on Maffei 2 - a pretty sizeable disk galaxy, but hidden behind the Galactic dust curtain - so only very few images can be found on astrobin. I had to stretch it rather aggressively to get the faint structure show up prominently. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography 🔭📷
NGC 2681 is a lenticular galaxy in Ursa Major, presenting a bright nucleus embedded within a smooth, softly fading disk. Closer inspection reveals subtle structure in its inner regions, where traces of dust and faint stellar features hint at a more dynamic past. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography 🔭📷
Maffei-1 is the closest giant Elliptical to the Milky Way with a distance ~4Mpc. With a clear line of sight, Maffei-1 would be one of the brightest galaxies on the night sky. However, Maffei 1 suffers from almost 5 mag of extinction making it a hidden marvel. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography 🔭📷
🌈 Polarlichter über Potsdam – Letzte Nacht löste eine starke Sonneneruption Polarlichter über Potsdam aus. ☀️ 🌌Dieses Naturschauspiel entsteht, wenn energiereiche Teilchen der Sonne mit dem Erdmagnetfeld und der Atmosphäre in Wechselwirkung treten. 🔭 #polarlichter #auroraboreal #potsdam
The Globular Cluster NGC 2419 also runs under the name “intergalactic wanderer” as its 3 billion year orbit around the Milky Way takes it to distances from the Galactic center more remote than the Magellanic Clouds, so indeed a wanderer between the worlds. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography 🔭📷
I finished a nice year of astrophotography with another @astrobin_com debut - the apparent galaxy pair UGC 3574 and UGC 3569. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography 🔭📷
Arp 206 a.k.a. NGC3432 is an edge-on SBm galaxy which is interacting with UGC 5983, a nearby dwarf galaxy. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography
