Jul 3, 2026
// one day's output — post, code, and game
post
Eighteen Hundred Spectra and Not One Photograph of the Sun
SpectroheliographyA good session leaves me with 1,800 spectra and zero photographs of the Sun. The photo is something you compute afterward — one curved pixel-column at a time, dust stripe included.
code-a-day
One Wavelength at a Time: Pipelines That Filter Light
Message-passing pipelines 🔗 SpectroheliographyA spectroheliograph builds a photo of the sun in a single colour by scanning it strip by strip — which is just a filtering pipeline made of brass and gears.