In this month’s National Geographic magazine there was a pretty unpleasant reminder of the destructive nature of man. I won’t go into the unsavory details but it basically spelt out how morons in several European countries are decimating the migratory … Continue reading
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
You can see a full colour image of the California nebula processed from DSS2 data here. The nebula extends to quite a way below the leftmost part of the image – it’s VERY big!
I carried on adding some new frames to the mega Tulip nebula DSS mosaic until the computer gave up. So this is it for now, the computer can’t handle any more 🙂 Note the ultra bright red S-type star AA … Continue reading
I am building up a big panorama around the Tulip nebula in Cygnus by downloading and processing DSS red and blue datafiles. Simply fantastic data to work with.
I have just seen that I got Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) number 47 on May 25th for “Imaging Diatoms”. I can only imagine that I missed this because I had been working over the allotment all day … Continue reading
Feynman left us many interesting facts/tools and one of the most powerful I have ever come across was his observation that “The same equations have the same solutions”. By this he means that equations of the same form have similar solutions. Now … Continue reading
Does the EPR “paradox” tell us anything about Physics? Well the trite answer is yes of course it does – but can we be a bit more specific? Physics is an “after the fact” science relying on experiments and the … Continue reading
Anne Baring’s new book “The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul” has a Pleiades image from the New Forest Observatory on the cover. The Publisher has done an excellent job in putting the book together.
In 1973 when I was 19 I left home to start work at Harwell and also to take an HNC at Oxford Polytechnic (as it was then). This was a time of great awakening for me, I had found the … Continue reading
