{"id":870,"date":"2022-12-03T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/?p=870"},"modified":"2024-02-02T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:46:49","slug":"the-andromeda-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"The Andromeda Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) taken with my RASA 8&#8243; Telescope. I took images in the Oxygen and Sulphur wavelengths of light in addition to the Hydrogen alpha images i took a couple of weeks ago and have now created an RGB colour image representing 8 hours of exposure. This barred spiral galaxy is 2.5 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda and is home to over a Trillion stars. The brown bands of nebulosity on the outer edge represent new star forming regions and the object below the main galaxy is M32, is a smaller satellite galaxy of Andromeda and only discovered in 1742<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andromeda-Galaxy2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andromeda-Galaxy2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-871\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andromeda-Galaxy2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andromeda-Galaxy2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andromeda-Galaxy2-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andromeda-Galaxy2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andromeda-Galaxy2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) taken with my RASA 8&#8243; Telescope. I took images in the Oxygen and Sulphur wavelengths of light in addition to the Hydrogen alpha images i took a couple of weeks ago and have now created an RGB colour image representing 8 hours of exposure. This barred spiral galaxy is 2.5 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}