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Category Archives: News
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 🙂
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.
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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