occultation Palinurus (4832)
Tonight, asteroid Palinurus (4832) will be occulting the star 2UCAC 34064331, magnitude 11.9. It will occur at 02:45 UT on 2014 Nov 26th, which in our time zone (-5 UT)…
Napanee Garden Club met
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2014 Nov 19). There was a good turnout of 18 people in spite of the…
convert current.png +distort DePolar 0 current-pan.png
Ever since I saw a sample of an allsky (or ultrawideangle) image being turned into a 360 deg panorama, I have known it was possible but did not know the…
adventures in Hard drive cloning
Adventures in hard drive cloning. Starting point: a linux based file server with a 320GB SATA drive as a boot drive. Overkill for sure as less than 20GB or 30GB…
Allsky camera 2 update
The replacement power supply and camera unit for Allsky2 (aka UWO10) arrived two weeks ago but has been delayed in installing for a variety of other projects already lined up…
Garlic 2014
Below is the list of names of the different types of garlic we planted this year. We are a small scale operation, planting just enough to continue planting the type…
Garlic is in the ground.
The 2014 fall garlic planting was completed on Saturday 2014 November 01, taking 11 person-hours. This is the newest vegetable bed, Veg4west. It is 6′ wide by 23′ long and…