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Projects undertaken at New Forest Observatory

Partial Solar Eclipse

Here is this morning’s partial solar eclipse taken from the New Forest Observatory at the maximum at 11 a.m. GMT. Image shown using the projection method.

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A Little Piece of History

This one is a shaggy-dog story and a half. I will attempt to make sense of the whole episode. It was probably March 16th 2025 around 8:00 p.m. (I didn’t make a note) that I went outside to have a … Continue reading

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Kemble’s Cascade Reprocess

Spent a little time tonight having another look at the Kemble’s Cascade data.

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AI Has Just Completely Changed my World

Things at the New Forest Observatory have just gone plain stupid. About 2 years ago I wanted to make a 3D Sunflower seed pattern using Mathematica, so that I could visualise an object that could be based on the Golden … Continue reading

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Into the Core of M31 the Andromeda Galaxy

I decided to reprocess a whole lot of M31 data this morning and was pleasantly surprised when I zoomed right into the nucleus. So here’s just the core region of M31.

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The (Planar) Golden Angle

It took a few hours for my last two neurons to process the gem of a solution that ChatGPT gave me to find the Golden Solid Angle. So I woke up at 2:00 a.m. this morning on a bit of … Continue reading

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The Golden Solid Angle

Well this ChatGPT business just got a whole lot weirder! I first asked ChatGPT about the Golden Solid Angle and at first it didn’t understand what I meant and came back with the conventional 2-dimensional golden angle. I then defined … Continue reading

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Is ChatGPT Impressive or What?

I started of a conversation with ChatGPT with some fairly bog-standard stuff to see if it came back with the correct answers, and then I went completely off the rails. The ensuing discussion impressed and fascinated me at the same … Continue reading

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Three 3D-printed Mathematical Objects

My winter projects this year seem to be based around the brilliant ANET A6 3D printer – especially as we’re not getting any clear nights. Here you can see three recent prints all using Amazon Basics pearly white 1.75mm PLA … Continue reading

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Solargraph 2024 – a Disaster

Yesterday was Winter Solstice and I went out after dark to collect the Solargraph which has been exposing the photopaper since Summer Solstice in June. Felt more than a bit sick when I saw a hole had been punched in … Continue reading

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