Jupiter 20250304
If you can believe it, this is the first Jupiter imaging session since January 9th.. Better yet, Jupiter was near its highest altitude, so less…
Jupiter 20250304
If you can believe it, this is the first Jupiter imaging session since January 9th.. Better yet, Jupiter was near its highest altitude, so less air to look through, than…
Total Lunar Eclipse 20260303
Up at 04:30 EST this morning , bundling up in the -18.2C temperature, to image as much of the total lunar eclipse that we could. We used a Canon DSLR…
New wordpress theme
Finally had time to start testing alternative wordpress themes and have found one that is much better than the last. Will try this one out and do a little customizing.
Searching for a new theme
We finally got around to updating the php version… and that broke the wordpress theme that we have had for over a decade. So now the search begins for a…
Aurora 20260120
Aurora last night… with a KP index reaching 8? We went out in the evening to take some DSLR image and they were ok. Nothing spectacular… we have had better.…
Jupiter 2026Jan08
And finally.. after 44 days of cloudy skies and or frigid temperatures, the skies cleared on 2026 January 8th and this was the first imaging session from the Serenity Observatory…
Weather Station mini UPS
We have a Hardware AcuRite 06004 weather station installed on 2019 November 27th. There is space for batteries in the back but they never kept it going during power outages..…
Welcome to 2026
Another trip around the Sun, another round of creating expectations and benchmarks for the remainder of the next orbit. 2025 – I did not meet my goal of 50 imaging…
Interesting event
An interesting event was caught last night on the allsky1 camera system. This is one still of 16. The interesting bit is the large cloud near the centre of the…
Napanee Community Garden 2025
This was the 16th year (2010-2025) of the Napanee Community Garden for the Local Food Bank. This is a small group of volunteers who plan, prepare, plant, weed, water, and…
Aurora 20251112
A really great Aurora last evening/this morning… too bad most of it was behind the cloud. Nonetheless, there were some great colours starting around 01:00 utc (20:00 EST) until around…
Ariane6 20251104
Our allsky1 camera system captured 15 images of the rocket dumping fuel last night. Because the exposures were on the order of 20 seconds, the spiral shape did not show…
Linux Fedora 42 to 43 upgrade
Discovered in passing that Linux Fedora 43 had been release two days ago… so.. another upgrade to run. It went flawlessly, smoothly and fast! Less than 45 minutes! linux fedora…
Saturn 20251029
Imaging Jupiter in the morning, imaging Saturn in the evening… it’s been awhile since I’ve been out after dusk and before dawn. Saturn started low (about 34 degrees altitude) and…