Colorado potato beetle season!
It is that time of year already! Colorado Potato beetle egg time. We discovered at least 4 nests of these on potato plants growing unexpectedly in our garlic and tomato…
Quinte Airshow 2016
Good news, bad news, the Quinte Airshow has returned after a 10 year absence. I’ll start by saying, all-in-all, it was good news. The airshow itself was great and the…
New Adirondack Chairs
We had a 10+ year old swingset here on this spot for the last few years. The top had disintegrated and broke, the seat was bad and we finally got…
Eastern Ontario Garlic Field Day 2016
We went on a road trip Sunday 2016 June 26th, to the Eastern Ontario Garlic Field Day, hosted by and at Beaver Pond Estates near Maberly. It was a good…
Mars 2016 June 23
We went out Thursday evening 2016 June 23rd after sunset.. ie 21:00EDT! wow! Found Mars pretty quickly and ran 10 imaging sessions from 01:11 UT to 01:28UT.. only 17 minutes!…
Linux Fedora 24 upgrades
Linux Fedora 24 came out today, after many weeks of delays. This is the operating system of choice for servers. The system was running an uptodate Linux Fedora 23 prior…
Our 1st meteor smoke trail!
Early this morning at approx 03:07:12 EDT (07:07:12 UTC) we had a good, bright bolide/fireball, and even better it was right overhead, and even better… it left a smoke trail!…
Gardening goes slow
For the last week now, we have been dismantling our old fencing around veg beds 4&5. This whole garden started small and every year got bigger and bigger, hence it…
Saturn 20160524 UT
Saturn the same night as Jupiter and Mars, but even lower to the horizon. No cassini division visible, poor seeing and poor transparency. It can only get better!
Mars 20160524 UT
Mars as imaged still very low to the southeastern horizon, right in the light pollution dome of Kingston, Ontario. Mars is approaching closest approach for the next 26 months and…
Jupiter 20160524 UT
It’s been 10 days since my last imaging run, mostly because of being away for the last week and then prepping for the last week. Went outside and discovered that…
Jupiter 20160514 UT
A poor session of imaging Jupiter in the evening. Gets dark very late now… not worth imaging before 21:30 EDT. Otherwise I get strange colour balancing going on with RGB…
Jupiter 20160611 UT
I modified the LX200 back to planetary imaging (after the Mercury Transit event) by removing the f3.3 focal reducer and putting the microfocuser back on, along with the televue x3…