This is how the great-circle route from London to Puerto Vallarta should have looked. Beginning,
Category: programming
Algorithms and Sloped Tax
This piece will start off about astronomy but segue into fair taxation. You may have noticed Continue reading “Algorithms and Sloped Tax”
The Speed of the Barycenter Settled?
I thought I should wait at least a day to let your answers Continue reading “The Speed of the Barycenter Settled?”
The Speed of the Barycenter
Here is a puzzle to amuse you. It’s a smallish question on which you might like to test your math. Continue reading “The Speed of the Barycenter”
Comets, and beams to them
Two of the comets that return to us this year come to their Continue reading “Comets, and beams to them”
Azequid, and other projections
We’re at Guantánamo, Which Way to Mecca?
The red curve is the shortest route between them.
Quadrantids and Edot revisited
This is another confession. Continue reading “Quadrantids and Edot revisited”
The Quadrantids and the Edot
The Quadrantid meteor stream hits us in the night of Jan. 3/4. Here is the picture from Astronomical Calendar 2016 page 6, but more expansively and with an addition.
A confession about the Final Astronomical Calendar
If you could have looked down through my ceiling during the evenings – not just the evenings – of Continue reading “A confession about the Final Astronomical Calendar”