Matthias Steinmetz
Astronomer & Astrophysicist, Galactic Archaeologist & Simulator, Husband & Dad, Director @AIP_Potsdam, backyard astrophotographer
- 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 🔭📷
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- 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
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- Arp 283 is a pair of interacting galaxies (consisting of NGC 2798 & 2799). The yellow/blue color contrast is nicely mirrored by two (neighboring bright stars rounding off this ensemble quite appealingly. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography
- The colorful galaxy pair NGC1160/NGC1161 bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography
- UGC12632 with Galactic cirrus - for friends of obscure and obscured galaxies bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography
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- Stephan's Quintett bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- NGC891 bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- Whirlpool Galaxy M51 bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- Cocoon nebula bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- IC65 bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- Edge-on/Face-on IC2233 and NGC2537 bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- NGC660 bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- The elephant's trunk at the core of the nebula IC1396. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- Cosmic contrasts: the planetary nebula IBHASX J055226.2+323724 is located in the 500 million year old open star cluster M37. It is only the 3rd example of an association between a PN and open cluster! It seems to be the oldest PN found so far. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- NGC974 is a SB galaxy located in Triangulum. The distorted spiral arms hint towards interaction with NGC969. Other gals in the pix: NGC 970, a companion of NGC969; NGC978 with PGC9823; NGC971 is a star that is in NGC by error. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- A trip to the Paranal Observatory allowed me to take this WF shot of the Milky Way with comet C/2005 R2 (SWAN) few days after it passed M16. bit.ly/4lB3t68%F0%9...
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- First Light for 4MOST - what an experience! Paranal Observatory is already a magic place on its own right - but getting a new facility on sky ... that's hard to top! www.aip.de/en/news/4mos...
- Sunset: Paranal eclipsing Armazones with the ELT #astrophotography
- site visit at the ELT - it is taking shape!
- The nice thing about LATAM airlines is that they are not afraid of having seat row #13.
- A different view on the Milky Way
- The emission nebula Sh2-119 bit.ly/4lB3t68🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
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- Heart nebula IC1805 bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- Abell 262 is a galaxy cluster with some 100 members in the constellation of Andromeda, near the border to Triangulum. It is part of the Pisces-Perseus-supercluster. At the center is the cD galaxy NGC708. bit.ly/4lB3t… 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- van den Bergh 140 is a blue reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. Adjacent is a large molecular cloud complex which makes the area around vdB140 a quite colorful region with blue, red and yellow tones. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- M110, aka NGC205, has a "wallflower existence" in Messier's famous catalogue. Although originally observed by Charles Messier in 1773, it never made it to his catalogue until it was added as its last entry not earlier than 1966! bit.ly/4lB3t…🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
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- Astrobin image of the day 👇👇👇👇💪💪💪💪 app.astrobin.com/i/oxpm7f
- Berlin Main Station, the rising Sun in my back
- HiRes spectrograph of 4MOST being lifted into the VISTA telescope, the two LoRes are already in the basement. (photos by Andreas Kelz @aippotsdam.bsky.social )
- vdB 133 is a reflection nebula powered by the yellow supergiant 44 Cygni. Its warm color makes the nebula appear white rather than the blue of reflection nebula powered by hotter stars. Adjacent is the large HII region LBN219. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography🔭📷
- Moon, the day after …
