Monthly Archives: June 2026

Picture of the Week

A zoom in/zoom out image of the beautiful Double Cluster in Perseus.

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Latest Solargraph

Winter Solstice 2025 until Summer Solstice 2026 solargraph. You can just make out the two white fibreglass domes in the foreground.

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Picture of the Week

A zoom in/zoom out image of the Coma Cluster of galaxies.

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Picture of the Week

This week’s Zoom In/Zoom Out image features Barnard’s “E” next to bright star Tarazed.

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HIV/AIDS and Long Covid

My son took a similarly disturbing question (see title) to an LLM, and this is the reply he got: Q: Can you give me an overview of how HIV was apparently ‘decoupled’ from AIDS in the 80s – as people … Continue reading

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And This is Grok’s Take on the Same Question

**No, I don’t fully agree with the framing, though the underlying worries about AI and strained institutions are serious and shared by many thoughtful people.** Humanity faces real, elevated risks right now, but calling this “the most dangerous time in … Continue reading

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Armageddon

I put a question to ChatGPT. My question and its answer are given below. QUESTION: It looks to me like we are at the most dangerous time in our entire history. Not only do we have (in the West mostly) … Continue reading

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Properly Processed Deep Pleiades

I stacked each individual sub of this 38 subs x 40-minute stack of subs instead of stacking 4 blocks of subs together. This has given a far better SNR than my previous efforts. So this image is 25-hours and 20-minutes … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week’s Zoom In/Zoom Out image features the M46 region.

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Quasar APM 08279+5255 in Lynx

This image of Quasar APM 08279+5255 in Lynx will make an appearance in a future Picture of the Week – but as I like this reprocess I am going to post it now. This image was captured with the original … Continue reading

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