Jupiter 20150130
Friday evening, early cause it was getting cold, I went out and was upgrading the learning curve of imaging by switching from the 20cm dobsonian (fl=1200mm) and a drift scan…
Imaging Jupiter
1st time outside in weeks to do some imaging of Comet Lovejoy. Total Bust. Managed to find it in the scope but its much too big to see in the…
Infrastructure outages
Amazing… a cable internet failure and a power failure all in one day. The cable internet (Eastlink) went out on Tuesday 2015 Jan 13th around 18:30 EST. The power (HydroOne)…
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Another cold night but at least it cleared. This is Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy on the evening of Monday 2015 January 12th around 19:29EST taken with a Canon Powershot ELPH…
Elementary
There is a lot more television out there than there used to be. And sometimes it is actually getting better than it used to be. Elementary is an example of…
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Finally! A night without horrible cloud cover and snow! There was a mostly full moon however, but still we were able to visually observe Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy with 10×50…
gas gas gas
Some interesting numbers from the past 4 years. We record information at every gas fillup with our vehicle and we do try to manage the balance between dollar averaging purchases…
A Light at Night
Upper Canada Village is a heritage park in the village of Riverside near Morrisburg, Ontario, which depicts a 19th-century village in Upper Canada. We first visited it earlier in the…