wigton physics

Tuesday, 31 October 2023

Long shutter setting

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These two pictures were taken a few seconds apart. The one above is what I could see with my eye. The shutter was open for a fra...
Friday, 27 October 2023

Wifi

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This data on a wi-fi box had me looking up the frequencies. FM radio is 88 to 108MHz so these are much higher frequencies. Infra...
Thursday, 26 October 2023

Vega in the constellation Lyra

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  Vega is well known for being a bright star so I was wondering why. It turns out that it is very close at only 25 light years which explain...
Wednesday, 25 October 2023

Sunspots and luminosity

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Here are a couple of sunspots from last week. I've been looking into how they form. They are colder patches formed because c...
Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Wind turbine carbon footprint

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There was always a lot of talk round here about a rumour that the amount of carbon put into the foundations of a turbine release...
Monday, 23 October 2023

Arcturus

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  Last month the constellation Bootes was prominent in the western sky after sunset. I've coloured it in the photograph. The circled sta...
Saturday, 21 October 2023

BESS - Battery Energy Storage Systems

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 I had thought that we stored excess electrical energy in this country by using pumped storage but it seems that we are now heading towards ...
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