We were lucky in Australia to be able to see the blue moon! (2nd August 2023). I used by star tracker Benro Polaris to shoot this. The star tracker was not used for tracking but just for a stable shot. No filters or editing was done. These photos were shot in RAW and long-exposure unto…
Category: Astronomy
Sun & Sunspots
Got this amazing opportunity to shoot the sun when travelling in Tasmania. The photos are as they were captured with natural lighting and no editing has been made. I was lucky to capture the sunspots! Warning: Never shoot the sun directly without proper equipment. It can damage your eyes and camera equipment. Equipment details can…
Venus-Moon Conjuction
We are lucky in southern hemisphere (in Australia) to get an opportunity to see the Venus-Moon Conjuction for over two months now. It’s hard to shoot Venus as the definition and fidelity of images through a telescope is not that great as Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system! (and you thought Mercury!)….
Could Pluto Return as a Planet?
Thank you for looking into fixing a change in planetary science which has bothered me from the day it was implemented – stripping Pluto from the title of being a planet. Now it turns out that Pluto might be bestowed with the title of a Planet again. For those who are lazy to read the…
A.I. tools for Astronomy (Deep Learning)
How to “read” the photo(s) above – the bottom-layer consist of photos take by the Hubble Telescope and as you move to the top you can see the result of the technique used by the researchers to decipher the formation-stage of a galaxy as explained below. One of the challenges face by astronomers is to…
Moon shots – 2nd Try
This is my second attempt of taking close-up moon shots. Photos were taken with both DSLR and astro-cam (webcam for astronomy). Weather was good however Sydney skies had plenty of atmospheric pollution. Most photos are in their original glory (I have only touched-up few photos). March 4 2018. Blogpost: girishnair.com
Machine Learning helps in Clinical trials
Machine Learning (ML) can help highlight avenues which human experience and intuition usually steer clears from. Complex systems which are primarily non-linear in form and structure, like human body, can benefit from the prowess of ML. Researchers at UCL highlight how ML has helped in Clinical Trials of brain in the below article. Full Story…
Click Beetles Inspired Robots
Nature is well equipped to solve a lot of new age technological problems (and others) we face now. We are at time competing with nature to come up with a solution which is as efficient as nature, but many a time we fail. Solar energy, which we have tried to tap in various ways, is…
Living Computers
The interdisciplinary nexus of biology and engineering, known as synthetic biology, is growing at a rapid pace, opening new vistas that could scarcely be imagined a short time ago. Research, first proposed in 1994, shows how computer-like circuits can be built using ribonuclied acid or RNA. As computer logic boards do, these bio-circuits receive…
My first foray into astronomy
I am a budding/amateur astronomer. These shots of the moon were taken from my Celesteon casegrain 11′ refractor telescope with iPhone as the eyepiece. More to come as I improve. Girish
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