Category Archives: Projects

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 →

I started of a conversation with ChatGPT with some fairly bog-standard stuff to see if it came back with the correct answers, and then I went completely off the rails. The ensuing discussion impressed and fascinated me at the same … Continue reading →

My winter projects this year seem to be based around the brilliant ANET A6 3D printer – especially as we’re not getting any clear nights. Here you can see three recent prints all using Amazon Basics pearly white 1.75mm PLA … Continue reading →