Gardening at Starlight Cascade Gardens
Gardening at Starlight Cascade Gardens is for food, seed saving, therapy, and getting to know the land and the vegetables and fruits you grow. We mainly grow environmentely, and organic…
Mmmm day lillies
Mmmm. day lilly. We went and walked around the grounds this evening and took a lot of pictures. This batch of flowers really stood out nicely.
bunnies and network cables
Just over two years ago, rogue bunnies ate through our ethernet cat 5 cable to the observatory. It was spliced together and wrapped up in the cold of the winter…
Murphy’s Point Provincial Park
We had camped at Murphy’s Point Provincial Park, starting on Friday to help fellow Kingston Centre member Frank Hitchens set up for observing at night. We hung out at the…
KAON Public Observing
Title: KAON Public ObservingLocation: Queens Ellis Hall ObservatoryLink out: Click hereDescription: A short (20 minute) lecture on some astronomical topic followed by tours of the Observatory and weather permitting, telescope…
Public Observing
Title: Public ObservingLocation: Murphys Point Provincial ParkDescription: RASC-KC member Frank Hitchens will give a slide show and telescope viewing for the public (weather permitting).Start Time: 20:30 EDTDate: 2009-07-18
allsky automation success
The allsky camera system, as it stands, is now completely automated. We had success last night with the mouse scripts where before something was always going wrong. A typical night…
UPS
We’ve had a few short power outages thanks to passing lightning storms plus some outages of the main data logging workstation we have that are a little mysterious. After looking…
allsky ghost mouse
We finally found a macro recording mouse program that allowed us to record the mouse strokes and clicks required to click on the Connect button in CCDOps, click on the…
stone mills local government oxymoron?
We had the opportunity to learn more about recent history in our Township of Stone Mills…. and several hours worth of searching the internet has failed to produce any more…
garlic scape harvest
Kim started harvesting garlic scapes a couple of days ago and so far they are a big hit with some of the folks at work who tried them out with…
allsky mpeg fails
Looks like the upgrade to Linux Fedora 11 broke something… the image magick conversion process of *.jpg into today.mpeg has been failing since the upgrade. Will have to track that…