Power outage
We had a 4 hour long power outage this morning at home. Always a surprise to see how great your preparedness is not. đ It is always good in a…
Busy few astro days
It’s been busy for some of the members of the RASC-KC in the last few days. First Hank’s brother scores with good video of the Saskatchewan fireball (spaceweather page). Then…
Newest meteorite addition
Once a year or so the Queen’s University the Geological Museum puts on a sale of sorts as a fundraiser. In the past we kept on missing it, and only…
Days are getting shorter
These days when we get out of work and start heading out through traffic to get out of town, we take a detour along the waterfront of Lake Ontario. Sometimes…
Linux is great!
More years now we have been running various cameras pointed up at the sky, hoping for pretty pictures of clouds but more importantly, pretty pictures of meteors and fireballs. Robert…
Serendipity Rules!
So, I’ve heard that Astronomy is a boring hobby. Nothing ever happens. Yesterday however, put those comments to rest in a trash bin. Yesterday, fellow astrodude Hank had brother Andy…
Ubuntu v8.10
My HP Laptop came with the dreaded and greatly feared MS Vista Operating system on a fairly large drive, 350gb. Attempts to downgrade this to MS XPPro failed due to…
wordpress upgrade.. worked!
An upgrade of the wordpress software this afternoon seems to have worked out not too bad.
The Turbines are a comin’
Last week (2008) the first of 86 Wind turbines went up on Wolfe Island. As proposed, this is a 197.8 megawatts (âMWâ) wind plant that consists of 86 wind turbines.…
Mexico Day 7
This is it! Our last day! Hmmm.. have to do something special… let’s go down to the beach at sunrise and drink some tequila! So Hank, Kim and I trundled…
Shuttle launch in HD
Just watching some of the new Hd channels that we are getting from the Starchoice satellite service and noticed that the HDNet channel (275) will be broadcasting the launch of…
Mexico Day 6
Our last full day at the resort saw us down at the beach .. we made a brief siting of the newlyweds getting their feet wet as well. Where did…
Mexico Day 5
Wednesday again started before sunrise… eight of us hopped into a cab/van and headed off on the adventure of the day… Treasure of the Sierra Madres… ok.. maybe not the…
Mexico Day 4
Tuesday saw a group of us get up at the crack of dawn and head out on a bus tour of Puerto Vallarta and surrounding areas. The level of construction…
And more clear skies
Sunday evening November 02 we went out for a quick peak at a near conjunction of Venus, the crescent moon and Jupiter, all within the field of view of our…