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The Geometry of the Universe

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Still going strong, November 14
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Still pretty November 12th
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Petunia snow watch update.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Petunia meets snow, November 9th.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Had to wait four years for this beauty to flower:
July 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
First bloom, a good sign for later today?
April 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Renée Amilcar says reduced LRT service is cool because it's not overcrowded.

The 14 runs from Tunney's to St Laurent, the same route and it is now regularly packed out, because it's no longer worth switching to the LRT.
March 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
March 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Three books about the Universe, what do the three authors have in common?
March 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Dollar Store globe gets it right.
February 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
It's my happy day, first snow of the season.
December 4, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Here's a picture of the blueshift region.

Everything arrives highly blue-shifted at the de Sitter Horizon.
November 30, 2024 at 12:04 AM
It is a model that Einstein considered.
It has no overall expansion, it exhibits redshift as well as blue shift -- new galaxies arriving in our visible universe.

Here's what the redshift v distance relation looks like in de Sitter Space:
November 29, 2024 at 11:04 PM
2nd hand 127mm.

It's good for Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings and our moon too.

I have a raspberry pi with a camera ready to attach, if the clouds ever disappear.

Pointing it at Polaris might be a good place to start.
November 28, 2024 at 4:53 PM
I only have one trick, random matplotlib colormaps with random JWST filters. Here's a mosaic of sombreros:
November 27, 2024 at 2:32 AM
JWST image of the day: Sombrero Galaxy Messier 104
November 27, 2024 at 1:29 AM
It's winter 8 months of the year in Ottawa, here's a November 21st viola:
November 21, 2024 at 8:00 PM