Comet Garradd in 3D

Here is a 3-D view of comet Garradd. You can view the stereograph by:

  1. Using the Cross-Eyed method.
  2. Using 3D prism glasses (berezin.com/3d/3dprism.htm)
  3. Using Brian May’s OWL Stereoscope (londonstereo.com)

I took the image of the comet using a Hyperstar III on a Celestron C11 SCT and an M25C OSC CCD camera from Starlight Xpress. The Dr. Brian May created the stereograph from the CCD image.

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Greg’s “3” Asterism in Leo – in 3D

Here is a 3-D view of Greg’s “3” asterism which can be found in the constellation Leo. You can view the stereograph by:

  1. Using the Cross-Eyed method.
  2. Using 3D prism glasses (berezin.com/3d/3dprism.htm)
  3. Using Brian May’s OWL Stereoscope (londonstereo.com)

I took the image of the asterism using the Sky90 refractors and the M26C OSC CCDs on the MiniWASP array at the New Forest Observatory. Dr. Brian May created the stereograph from my Deep-Sky image.

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Cabbage White Butterfly Eggs in 3D

Here is a 3-D view of the eggs of the Cabbage White butterfly. You can view the stereograph by:

  1. Using the Cross-Eyed method.
  2. Using 3D prism glasses (berezin.com/3d/3dprism.htm)
  3. Using Brian May’s OWL Stereoscope (londonstereo.com)

I took the images of the Cabbage White butterfly eggs using a Canon 5D MkII DSLR and a research trinocular microscope. The 2 images are focus-stacked using the Helicon Focus software, and Dr. Brian May created the stereograph.

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3D VIEW OF DNA

Here is a 3-D view of 2 and a half periods of the DNA molecule. You can view the stereograph by:

  1. Using the Cross-Eyed method.
  2. Using 3D prism glasses (berezin.com/3d/3dprism.htm)
  3. Using Brian May’s OWL Stereoscope (londonstereo.com)

I put together the 3D model from a Cochrane’s of Oxford kit, and Dr. Brian May created the stereograph.

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Russ Croman’s StarXTerminator Program and the JWST Images

I recently downloaded the free evaluation copy of Russ Croman’s StarXTerminator program – which basically does what it says on the tin. I also saw a recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on APOD and was once again flabbergasted at the absolutely dreadful EIGHT diffraction spikes around bright stars. So I thought I would try an experiment and see what StarXTerminator would do on a JWST image. I was expecting StarXTerminator to do a good job on removing stars but I was expecting it to leave a lot of the diffraction spikes behind. In the images above you can actually see what happened. StarXTerminator did an absolutely superb job on removing both stars AND diffraction spikes. A quick run of “Despeckle” in Photoshop really cleaned up the background and the “Spot Healing Brush” tool cleared up a couple of stragglers. I really think Russ should be in serious discussion with NASA on how to clean up their JWST images.

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Spooky Action at a Distance

This is what Einstein was referring to of course when he came up with the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox for Quantum Mechanics. I have written about this subject before and I even researched it for most of a Sabattical without coming to any definite conclusions. It still didn’t make sense to me. Then, maybe about a year ago, someone made a throwaway remark that made the whole thing crystal clear. The initial pair of particles created at time t=0 can be described by A SINGLE WAVEFUNCTION! And there is all you need to know. If the initial state can be described by a single wavefunction then it is absolutely no surprise whatsoever that if you measure a property of one of the particles at a later time t, then you can infer the same property for the other particle at the same time. There is no magic. There is no spooky action at a distance. Instead there is a single wavefunction which completely describes the situation. Now why this isn’t mentioned everytime there’s a discussion on the EPR paradox is completely beyond me.

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