Monthly Archives: April 2014

Carbon star V623 Cassiopeiae

In putting together the next book “Experimental Photography” I came across some unprocessed data from a while back.  It was Carbon star V623 Cassiopeiae or SAO23858 – a very nice Carbon star lying just below Pazmino’s cluster in the constellation … Continue reading

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Today Spica is “bright bluish”

So today’s APOD describes Spica as bright bluish.  Well you’re slowly getting there guys, eventually you’ll cotton on.  If you check out the negativity of the B-V index you’ll find that Spica is in fact the 3rd bluest star in … Continue reading

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Memorable APOD prose of the day

Today’s APOD is a nice Mars, Ceres, Vesta image, but the words to go with the image are a bit of a let down. We read – “Clearly outshining bluish Spica ………..” – BLUISH SPICA!!  The brightest blue star in … Continue reading

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Positive and negative news

First the positive.  90 pages of the new book completed, estimated total 250 pages. Now the negative.  All my (5) observatory computers are XP-based machines as there are still plenty of astronomy bits running on ancient software.  As you know … Continue reading

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Mars and Spica Earth Science Picture of the Day

My recent Mars & Spica DSLR image made today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD). Thank you Jim for publishing my work 🙂

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