Before Sunrise
For those astronomers and others who do not get up before sunrise, just take a look at one of the spectacular views you are missing! This was taken on the…
Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures outside Yarker Ontario Canada
For those astronomers and others who do not get up before sunrise, just take a look at one of the spectacular views you are missing! This was taken on the…
We have completed the R&D portions of projects 2 and 3 with the Raspberry Pi and am amazed at how flexible these things are. #2 was as a display controller…
A couple of weeks later and things do not look nearly so bad. I’m talking about how the Saskatchewan Roughriders at 1 win 10 losses, last in the league then…
Woke up Sunday morning to twitter and web reports of a loud noise Saturday evening, 2016 Sept 24th around 20:50 edt. http://www.kingstonregion.com/news-story/6877053-mysterious-boom-startles-south-frontenac-residents/. Local television also covered the story: http://www.ckwstv.com/2016/09/25/128535/ The…
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2016 September 21). There was a good turnout of 19 people for the first regular…
Much more time has gone into the Torus telescope project this summer. The latest results from last night show a good night coarse collimation. The plan was daytime coarse, nighttime…
Yay! Success! After a year.. or two.. the time and pi and motivation all came together in the space of under an hour last night. Since 2002 we have had…
Looking at our summer rates of electricity her in Ontario Canada provided by the Hydro One Network (as it is a big political issue of late): cents/kwh Low 8.7 Mid…
The worst of the heat and drought have almost given rise to cooler wetter conditions, but not quite yet. This is raised bed #1, containing heirloom tomatos. They are still…