Author Archives: Greg Parker

M44 – The Beehive cluster – in perspective

Beautiful clear night last night (08/03/2016) although there was a LOT of water vapour in the air.  Main thing – it was dark & Moonless 🙂 I got both frames on M44 with the Canon 200mm lenses and the M26C … Continue reading

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Aldebaran and the Hyades

Akira Fujii-style version:

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Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)

Got today’s EPOD with the Coma-Virgo Supercluster of Galaxies panorama.  A 2-framer taken with the Canon 200mm lenses and around 5-hours of 15-minute subs per frame. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work 🙂  

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Delphinus with an Akira Fujii-like effect

I used Noel Carboni’s Star Spikes Pro 4 software to create an Akira Fujii-like image out of the whole Delphinus image taken with the Canon 200mm lens.

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Use of my images

Could I please re-iterate:  None of my images are available “free of charge”.  Take a moment to look at the “Image Gallery/Agency and Copyright Notice” section. Thank you.

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Polaris and the Integrated Flux Nebula

Noel Carboni put together a bunch of Polaris subs we had and I overdid the curves to pull out the very faint Integrated Flux Nebula (Galactic Cirrus) lurking in the background. Very surprised at the amount of Cirrus that came … Continue reading

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Are you living in a computer simulation II ?

http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html  

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The Last Word on Square Roots

If you have played with the square root function on an electronic calculator you may have noticed something odd.  It looks like if you take the square root of ANY number that is not actually a perfect square, then you … Continue reading

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What does Cantor have to say?

Admittedly Cantor was in his writings not very explicit about what he did take the set theoretic universe as a whole to be. One problem is that it is not in every instance clear whether he has a theological or a mathematical conception … Continue reading

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God and the Absolute Infinite – the Ein Sof

If God is the Absolute Infinite, the Ein Sof, then I think we are entering very interesting territory.  Why?  Because I don’t believe there is ANYTHING in the physical Universe that is infinite.  I don’t believe there are an infinite … Continue reading

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