Yes – another single star picture for this month’s Image of the Month. Polaris, the Pole star, the North star, Alpha Ursa Minor – the Navigator’s friend. I like this region of space because 1) It is rarely imaged and … Continue reading
I had an electric focuser lying around so with a pulley and timing belt from Radiospares I put together an electric focuser rig for the Canon 5D MkII and the 100mm macro lens that took the mega-wide-field Virgo/Coma galaxies shot. … 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.
As I’ve mentioned before – this is MY blog, so I can write what the hell I like. My cage has just been rattled by a piece written about Harvard and it mentions teaching in Universities. You have teachers at … Continue reading
The Image of the Month for May 2013 is the recent reprocess of the Coathanger Cluster (Al Sufi’s cluster, Collinder 399) in the constellation Vulpecula. This reprocess by Noel Carboni included data from the mini-WASP array plus deep data from … Continue reading
A recent Noel Carboni process of mostly mini-WASP test data (I used one scope for imaging whilst trying to set up the other two scopes). This is Polaris the alpha star in Ursa Minor. Although it looks like a single … Continue reading
Well this site is about Life, the Universe and Everything, so where better to bring this up? I am just starting to read Carl Sagan’s “The varieties of scientific experience” and just in the first few pages it had me … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I was scrolling through the constellation Leo using “the Sky 6” planetarium program when an amazing numerical asterism flashed into view. It looked quite unreal and I wondered if it would look as impressive in the … Continue reading
