L&A Hort met 2014 March 19th
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club), met on Wednesday 2014 March 19th at the Napanee Fire Hall community/training room. The guest speaker was all about tools and…
SID2 recommissioning
The Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance 2 system was completely rebuilt from the ground up. A reused computer (Windows 7, Intel atom 1.6GHZ processor, 2GB ddr2 RAM) was put together and install…
St. Thomas Fireball
By now you may have heard about the St. Thomas (Ontario) Fireball on Tuesday 2014 March 18th at 10:24pm. http://meteor.uwo.ca/research/fireball/events/st_thomas/overview.html Seven all-sky cameras of Western’s Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN)…
meteors in the news
Meteors have been in the news recently, so I have added the last two “spectacular” meteors that the allsky2 camera system have seen recently. On Monday 2014 March 17 06:39:00…
Regulus occultation prep
This is a short 10 second video of Jupiter and its four Galilean moons using the system we hope to capture the occultation of Regulus Thursday morning around 02:06 EDT.…
Laptop repair
This is a 6 year old HP dv6500 laptop. It’s fan makes the most irritating noise one can imagine. So today, we took 2 hours to take it apart and…
The Kingston Astronomy Club Met
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre met last night, Thursday 2014 March 13th in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen’s University. Our Guest Speaker: Dr. John Percy…
Upcoming Events at SCGO
It’s been a fairly quiet season here at SCGO. But the thaw is coming, the snow and ice are going and soon we will be able to be back outside…
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
Book Review: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield Wow. What a read. Received this back in 2013 December and took my time going through it, finishing…
KAON Saturday 2014 March 08
Greetings partially clear skies! For the first time in 5 or 6 months (2013 September?) The skies were clear enough to set up on the observing deck! The Kingston Astronomy…
Seedy Saturday Kingston is over!
Seedy Saturday Kingston was held today, Saturday 2014 March 08, at this hall. This was the 2nd? or 3rd? year at this location. In the past it was held in…
another Daylight Saving Time Rant
Again, my annual plea to all, to stop this huge waste of time and energy, that continues on due to plain old bureaucracy and complacency. Cons: – labour involved in…
SID2 update
The Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) 2 system still has not achieved 100% operation. It is being hosted on a newer computer that also hosts a weather station and operates under…
Babylon5 – Season two complete
In the last three weeks, we finished watching the last episode of Season 2. Another great season with a lot of good story lines and a great desire to carry…