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The western end is a gravel path.
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NGC 3169 and NGC 3166 make up a pair of interacting galaxies located roughly 70 million light years from earth. The difference in appearance of these two galaxies is striking, while NGC 3169 (galaxy on the left) is an unbarred spiral galaxy, NGC 3166 (the galaxy on the right) has no visible spiral arms.
NGC 3169 is a spiral galaxy with tightly-wound arms and interesting looking features. One of the spiral arms appears to be asymmetrical due to the interaction with NGC 3166. Additionally, it features a rather big halo in a wide area around the galaxy core, estimated to contain mass in the order of magnitude of 10⁸ solar masses. At the end of the tidal stream contained in the wider halo around the galaxy, a dwarf galaxy was formed by the star systems part of this halo.
Capturing this very faint halo around the galaxy was the main goal of this photo. While I succeeded somewhat, it could definitely have gone better if I had been able to get more Luminance data.
NGC 3166 is classified as a lenticular galaxy (something between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy), this galaxy has no prominent spiral arms. However, it has a low surface brightness bar structure at the core of the galaxy, which can be seen in my photo. The stars in the disk around its nucleus have a rather low metallicity (higher ratio of hydrogen in their make-up) meaning they are probably older than 8 billion years and therefore belong to some an older generation of stars than our own sun.
Total exposure time: over 23h in LRGB using a 8" RC telescope and the QHY163m camera
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Beneath the permafrost of Svalbard lies the Global Seed Vault—designed to outlast war, famine, and time itself. Not a monument to the past, but a bet on the survival of life. #Svalbard #SeedVault #Photography #LandscapePhotography #ClimatePhotography #FediPhotographers #Pixelfed #Arctic #DocumentaryPhotography #Minimalism #light #photo #photog #travelphotography
I think I'm sold on the whole low-trail thing for my typical kind of riding these days, with a moderate front load. Starting a turn is more intuitive, and I don't feel like I'm going to fall over when banking heavily on a tight turn. However, maintaing a straight line also takes less effort on my part. Pedaling out of the saddle with a lot of weight is easy, too.
Whenever I ride a mid–high trail bike (55-70mm of trail) without a front load, I feel uneasy and that I have to babysit it when going straight, and I avoid taking tight turns because I feel like I'm going to fall over. Adding some load up front takes care of the first problem, but not the second. Pedaling out of the saddle with a lot of weight isn't particularly difficult, but isn't as easy as above.
So #Nikon is once again hosting a photo/video competition and if you weren't previously aware, now you are and you can enter (link below).
Also, if you're a fellow #darktable user, do fill it in as an option in the raw processing form.
This was the first image that came to mind that matched their theme of "perspective" -- do share your own too!
#PhotoOfTheDay A close call/near collision at The Racetrack, Death Valley National Park, California. :)
"Stormy Skies at Carbon River Trail Entrance"
Due to time constraints, I decided to turn back here.
