meade lx200gps mods
We are working on making the RASC-KC’s 20cm LX200GPS accessible remotely to members of the Centre. One of the many issues was a digital camera. They are expensive and all…
Software update day
It’s a nice quiet day at home with all of the cats asleep and time to do some software updates. Stellarium 0.12 from 0.11.4 – an astronomy planetarium software program,…
another fedora upgrade experience
Yesterdays linux fedora 16 to 17 upgrade did not complete so I didn’t get a chance to try out the next phase of the process, fedora 17 to 18, on…
Earth Hour 2013
Last night, Saturday March 23rd, 2013 was Earth Hour, from 20:30-21:30 EDT. Starting about 10 minutes earlier, we went around shutting off non-essential power, including all lights inside. We headed…
SID1 status
The old Sudden Ionsopheric Disturbance system 1 (SID1) does not seem to have survived the transition from the old computer running windows NT2000 and having a physical COM1 port, to…
Linux Fedora 16 upgrade fail
Fedora 16 linux installation I have a couple of old linux fedora 16 servers that are now longer supported, and do not get updates any longer. They must be upgraded…
Bond… James Bond
We’ve started rewatching the entire James Bond Movie series in the last few weeks. So far we’ve done Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963) and most recently Goldfinger…
seti@home update update
Yay! After first joining the effort on April 12, 1999, 1:58 pm Over 13 years now dedicated to signal processing radio telescope data. We have gained a few more spots…
Great Idea!
New episodes of Dr. Who coming soon (Caturday March 30th, 2013)! Awesome idea…
Spring plans
Spring is almost here… another 20 hours give or take… time to start planning! April – add another coarse of 3.5″x5″x8′ minigarden ties to the raised beds #1, 2, 3,…
Plants in the greenhouse
ok.. maybe not plants but at least seeds. The peppers went in on Saturday March 16th, 2013. Low that night was -13C but the partially insulated greenhouse with small electric…
Newer radioroom computer upgrade
For 6+ years now our primary data logging computer system, called “radioroom” has been running various software to log data coming from SID1, SID2, FMMeteor, and the Weather Station. When…
Upcoming events next week
Monday March 18, 2013 The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre regular meeting, 7pm, Ellis Hall Room 324, Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario. “You Can Almost Touch the Stars”…
Comet C/2011 L4 ( PanSTARRS )
Canon A495, 15sec f5.8 iso 400 at 20:23 EDT Canon A2400IS, 5 sec f4.5 iso 800 at 20:20 EDT Thursday March 14th, 2013 we went out to suddenly clear skies…
New lighting for Kingston City Park
While walking through the park the other day(2013 March 11), I noted that the City of Kingston was in the process of replacing the sidewalk lighting fixtures through the park…