A nice fireball reported to us by a local observer who witnessed it live. Very much to our south and captured by our older Allsky1 camera system during an 80 second exposure.
Looks like about 29 reports to date:
http://amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2017/1790
First time in a month and 10 days to attempt to image Jupiter. Popped outside quickly around 21:00 EDT, pointing was bad, tracking was bad. 1st attempt at 30 seconds could not keep it in the FOV.
2nd attempt worked a little better. seeing was poor, transparency was average with an exposure of 40ms.
Serendipity did strike as, unbeknownst to me, Io had just finished transitting and Io shadow was still there as well.
These settings are those used by Christopher Go and are a little more robust then I would choose, yet his settings show off the detail better than mine did.
Here we are in the middle of May already.
The Black Flies, here for two weeks now, continue to inhibit all outdoor activity. Event with bug hats, jackets and gloves, they still get inside and leave nasty bites.
That and the 133mm of rain this month have left the gardens mostly unplanted. We are slowly working on the beds with a new 4’x16′ bed going in, made mostly from leftover parts of an older bed that was behind a short row of lilacs 15 years ago… now tall lilacs that completely keep that section in shade.
All of the seeds started in the house (some in the lightbox above) have been moved out to the greenhouse.
The newest vegbed had planting started in it (veg#10) yesterday with carrot seed going in.
The garlic may be doing well.. it has been hard to go out back, into the kingdom of the black fly!
Weeds and grass continue to establish themselves in the large veg4 and 5 beds. Need to get that tiller in to cultivate quickly. Oh wait…
Work continues on repairing the numerous tires that have developed leaks over the winter. Two on the wheelbarrel, one on the wagon, two on the tiller, 4 on the tractor. I am afraid to even look at the bicycles.
The allsky2 camera system continues to be down. Not enough time to finish the troubleshooting.. there is a spare camera around here someplace!
This is a southbound view of Highway #38 near Murvale, with the flood waters receded back from the eastern lane. Yesterday it covered the eastern lane and the western lane was also affected. The heavy rain (115 mm to date this month) has caused a lot of high water, but all in all it has been managable in our area. There have been actually fewer local yards and ditches and fields flooded than we have seen in the past, and yet some new events have occurred, like the flooding of highway #38.
To top that off, this morning was our latest in the month recording of snow 
Needless to say, plants into the ground have been delayed by at least 2 weeks more likely 3 or 4 weeks. The peas and garlic are about the only things above ground at the moment. All of the other plants started from seed are still in the house, most likely to be moved out into the greenhouse this weekend.