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Transit of Mercury

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Transit of Mercury animation

I spent 7 hours behind a monitor yesterday downloading SDO data of the Mercury transit every 15-minutes. I put all the SDO data together to give this very short animation.

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A selection of mares’ tails

Over the New Forest Observatories this evening:

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Use of my images

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

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Greg’s Lambda/Lambda

Here is the Epsilon Cassiopeiae region in Cassiopeia – and to the middle left you can see a very clear Lambda, together with a much smaller and fainter Lambda.

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The 100th Monkey Effect – and Science

The 100th monkey effect, which may not be an effect at all, is about non-physical communication of data.  The original 100th monkey effect supposedly started with a single monkey, in a group of monkeys on an isolated island, who discovered … Continue reading

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Mathematics as Language

Mathematics is just another language – granted it is a highly complex language – but a language it is.  Just as ordinary language attempts to put into words thoughts, ideas, and “reality” – mathematics tries to do the same with … Continue reading

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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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Are you living in a computer simulation II ?

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

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Unknown object near Aldebaran

About a year ago a German amateur imager contacted me about a faint object lying near Aldebaran.  It was visible (just) in an old image of mine which only had an hour of total exposure time.  Just woke up this … Continue reading

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