I do love a good Cornu spiral! DeForest+ on “A Simplified Theory of External Occulters for Solar Coronagraphs” might work for exoplanet imaging - occulters are simple in concept, but typical numerical approximations we commonly use in astronomy don’t work: this paper looks at new ones. 🔭🪐 #astrodon

A lovely Cornu spiral - a blue line curls out from an impossibly tight spiral, from the bottom left corner, across as single line, to form a mirror image spiral.
Matthew Kenworthy @kenworthy