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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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Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) for today

Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day is my 2-frame narrowband + RGB image of the Veil nebula in Cygnus. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work 🙂  

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Blatant attempt at extortion!!!

How extraordinary!! I just got an e-mail from a book publisher friend who had just received a nasty e-mail from a Photo Library wanting payment for an image of the Pleiades shown on the cover of one of his books. … Continue reading

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Check out today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)

Got today’s EPOD with the inverse nova R Coronae Borealis 🙂 See the animation here. Many thanks Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

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R Coronae Borealis

As there has only been one imaging night for the whole of October 2015 I have had to look for other things to get on with. I took a Sky 90 image of the R Coronae Borealis (RCrB) region in … Continue reading

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Definitive Kemble’s Cascade

I used Registar to put together all the best images I had of Kemble’s Cascade – and this is the result 🙂

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