Title: The Golden Solid Angle: A Three-Dimensional Extension of the Golden Ratio Abstract: The Golden Ratio (φ) and its planar analogue, the Golden Angle (α), are well-known mathematical constants that appear widely in Nature, design and geometry. In this short … Continue reading
Imagine you are a photon. You suddenly come into existence, and without the passing of any time, and without travelling any distance, you suddenly disappear again. Did you even exist? Well you must have done because an astrophotographer on planet … Continue reading
This is everything I have on Markarian’s Chain from the original Hyperstar, the Hyperstar III, the Hyperstar 4, and the Sky90 array. Must be more than 20-hours in total, probably more than 30. So why doesn’t it look a lot … Continue reading
Here is this morning’s partial solar eclipse taken from the New Forest Observatory at the maximum at 11 a.m. GMT. Image shown using the projection method.
This one is a shaggy-dog story and a half. I will attempt to make sense of the whole episode. It was probably March 16th 2025 around 8:00 p.m. (I didn’t make a note) that I went outside to have a … Continue reading
Spent a little time tonight having another look at the Kemble’s Cascade data.
Things at the New Forest Observatory have just gone plain stupid. About 2 years ago I wanted to make a 3D Sunflower seed pattern using Mathematica, so that I could visualise an object that could be based on the Golden … Continue reading
I decided to reprocess a whole lot of M31 data this morning and was pleasantly surprised when I zoomed right into the nucleus. So here’s just the core region of M31.
It took a few hours for my last two neurons to process the gem of a solution that ChatGPT gave me to find the Golden Solid Angle. So I woke up at 2:00 a.m. this morning on a bit of … Continue reading
Well this ChatGPT business just got a whole lot weirder! I first asked ChatGPT about the Golden Solid Angle and at first it didn’t understand what I meant and came back with the conventional 2-dimensional golden angle. I then defined … Continue reading
