Blue Straggler

Blue Straggler is a restaurant in New Minneapolis, Canada which is popular with astronomers and Gnomon algorithm theorists.

In the News

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  1910: Astronomer and academic Jacobus Kapteyn visits the Blue Straggler cafe in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in photometric detection of crimes against astronomical constants.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against astronomical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Blue straggler (nonfiction) - a main-sequence star in an open or globular cluster that is more luminous and bluer than stars at the main sequence turnoff point for the cluster. Blue stragglers were discovered by Allan Sandage in 1953 while performing photometry of the stars in the globular cluster M3. See Blue straggler @ Wikipedia.