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