Spring has sprung
You know spring has sprung when you plant peas and clean out eavestroughs… well at least the planting peas part. Seeds from 2013, 2015 and 2017? or 2018? were planted…
Another Imac Transplant
Just completed a second Spinning hard drive (Seagate 500GB 7200rpm) to Solid State Drive transplant in an older Imac. This time it was a 21.5″ mid2011 Imac, and it was…
cloudy april
So far this April, we have managed only 9 days out of 25 to do some type of astronomy related activities. This image is of the moon and Jupiter two…
windows 10 bah!
I installed this 120GB SSD in place of the older larger spinning harddrive in my primary laptop workstation some time ago. 120GB is a little tight for space so I…
supersid operational
Our supersid system has been operating at the edge of the property for 3 years now, mainly to get as faraway from any house generated RFI as we can. Too…
Gardening in April
It is only April the 5th, but yesterday we were out surveying the gardens and trying to ignore the piles of snow still here and there. Great plans are being…
Davis Vantage Vue Weather Station repair
Update: 12 days later the new CR123 lithium battery died as well. No data is logged during the night period, and even if it is really cloudy in the day…
365 days of astronomy – april update
In the theme of 365 Days of Astronomy, we made a New Year Resolution to attempt to observe or image every day possible in 2019. These are the results: The…