Author Archives: Greg Parker

Kemble’s Cascade Reprocess

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

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature the very popular Horsehead nebula region of Orion. This is a 3-frame mosaic taken with the original Hyperstar and the little H9C OSC CCD, composited with Sky90 data using the M26C OSC CCD. There must be … Continue reading

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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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Picture of the Week

This week we feature bright star Deneb – one of the main stars in Cygnus. This image was captured over several nights by one Sky90 and M26C OSC CCD as the MiniWASP array was starting to be configured. This is … Continue reading

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Castor & Pollux

Last night was the 8th clear night in a row – a new record. Previously I managed to blow all the power MOSFETs in the dome rotator, so I spent all Monday morning replacing same (8 MOSFETs to de-solder, remove … Continue reading

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The M44 Stargate

I am not able to keep up with the images I have taken this week as I am so unused to having several clear nights in a row. Having just changed over to UV/IR cut filters on the 200mm lenses … Continue reading

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