Radiation Community

NGC 2237 - Rosette Nebula & NGC 2244 Open Star Cluster

Captured this over 4 nights with my ZWO Seestar S50, 30-second exposures using the IDAS DTD Ha/O III/NIR filter. Both DSOs (Deep Space Objects) are located in the constellation Monoceros and are ~5,000 light-years from Earth. NGC 2237 is more commonly referred to as the Rosette Nebula, though it... read more

radioactive kitchen tool

I bought a new mortar at Aldi yesterday. It's made from granite. So I dropped the γ-spectrometer into it over night. The radiation level in the mortar is ~50% higher as the background in my kitchen in the same location. The sources are the same (Th232 decay series and K40). I'm not worried. It was... read more

Space radiation

Nukes

What is more terrifyingly destructive about a nuke? The explosion or the radiation?

Just Sayin'

In space, no one can hear you scream . . . Also no fire because there's no oxygen . . . Also, also solar radiation which is horrifying way to die . . . I digress.

RPi Fallout Pipboy

I once made a wearable, functioning, RPi PipBoy. The right hand dial was decorative, the the 5 switches on bottom did different things. It could display the health screen (just an image), a Pi stats page, an ASCII map page that used a USB GPS dongle, an ASCII weather page, and play a Sept set of... read more