Linux Fedora 22 released today
Linux Fedora 22 was released this morning and two servers have been upgraded without issue… the smoothest upgrades yet. Total time to complete the upgrade has been about an hour.…
Observatory renovation
After 12 odd years, we decided it was time to renovate the SCG Observatory. It had been going through constant minor modifications from year to year, but this time was…
Garden pathways
We have walking pathways between various vegetable and flower gardens. Last year we laid down a layer of weed cloth and some cedar mulch. The grass went through it like…
building a video finder
We have a large telescope that we are in the process of commissioning. One of the items that popped out of the process was the need for a relatively low…
Bridge building
On one of the days off this month, we needed to replace and or rebuild the small tractor bridge that goes across the creek in our backyard. It was built…
RASC-KC met Thursday 2015 May 14th
The Kingston Astronomy Club (aka The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre) met Thursday night with a great turnout of 25+ people in a very small temporary room…
L&A HortSoc met last night
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2015 May 13). There was a good turnout of 25 people. Our guest speaker Master…
Jupiter 2015May06
After catching up on a little TV, waiting for the black flies to die down, and seeing Montreal was losing yet another hockey game, we went outside around 21:00 EDT…
2 Nice Meteors 2015 May 04
wow. nice meteors Sunday night/Monday morning north is up, west is right on these images from Allsky2, aka UWO #10 Allsky1 was completely wiped out by the full Flower Moon…