{"id":116,"date":"2012-03-23T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T21:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/?p=116"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:13:35","slug":"nice-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"The Spindle Galaxy as seen by RCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_117\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/a120323094.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117\" title=\"a120323094\" src=\"http:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/a120323094-e1332537208307-300x289.png\" alt=\"NGC5866\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/a120323094-e1332537208307-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/a120323094-e1332537208307.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NGC5866 in the H_alpha filter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some of you might have noticed this week that we have cleared some space in the queue to allow a couple of students to take data for their Astronomical Observational Techniques class.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Leszczewicz, a Physics major at WKU, took this image of galaxy NGC 5866 for his project to determine the star formation rates of a sample of galaxies. This image is a raw 300s exposure taken in the H_alpha_continuum (6444A) filter.<\/p>\n<p>NGC 5866 (also called the Spindle Galaxy or Messier 102) is a relatively bright lenticular or spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco. As clearly seen in this image, it&#8217;s most prominent feature is it&#8217;s edge-on dust disc.<\/p>\n<p>It was so pretty I thought everyone should see it.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you have any similarly pretty images taken with the RCT!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Rachel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might have noticed this week that we have cleared some space in the queue to allow a couple of students to take data for their Astronomical Observational Techniques class. Jason Leszczewicz, a Physics major at WKU, took this image of galaxy NGC 5866 for his project to determine the star formation rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rct.wku.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}