October 2011 – Thoughts from Starlight Cascade

Jupiter at opposition

October 29, 2011 kevin

According to our 2011 RASC Observers calendar, Jupiter was at opposition yesterday, Friday October 28th. So we were out looking at it at 6:30am EDT for a short time in…

astronomy weather

aurora!

October 28, 2011 kevin

Last Monday evening, 2011 October 24th, we experienced our first really good aurora display in many many years… maybe 7? The allsky camera has been up for many years now…

astronomy tech

Skypipe

October 14, 2011 kevin

We had an issue with the radiojove system thursday morning… one of those pesky microsoft automatic updates occurred, and it restarted the system around 3am. Funny. We thought we had…

tech

old hardware stories

October 6, 2011 kevin

I need to test a new linux based samba run domain controller at work. So I pull out an old (10 year) spare box that has: pentium 4 celeron @2.66GHz,…

astronomy tech

sbig st237a oddities

October 5, 2011 kevin

Yesterday we noticed that the Allsky camera CCD temperature was listed as 0 deg C. That might happen if the night is particularly warm (say 20-25 deg C) but that…

Month: October 2011

Jupiter at opposition

aurora!

Skypipe

old hardware stories

sbig st237a oddities