Mars 2020Oct30
A good clear night, the first in a long time, albeit a little cold. Mars is now up high fairly early on in the evening, so we went out and…
Linux Fedora 33 released
Today was a good day. Linux Fedora 33 came out today. And is the upgrade process ever fast! and stable! in less than 1 hour we have upgraded 4 server…
Mars 2020Oct21
Mars Wednesday evening. It was unexpectedly somewhat clear, at least in the direction of Mars, last night. A lot of cloud all around, affecting other imagers to some degree. This…
Mars 2020 Oct 17
This is one of only two imaging runs of Mars on Friday evening. Another long day and a short night… not enough sleep hours in a day After completing the…
Jupiter double shadow transit 2020oct17
Shadow transits of Moons of Jupiter on Jupiter are relatively common. Double shadow transits are somewhat less common. Seen here is the moon Io off to the right with two…
Astronomy image processing
The current desktop computer that processes all of our astronomy images is nine years old. It’s specs are: Intelcore 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.8GHz, 4GB DDR2, 120GB SSD, DVD, Win10Pro64bit,…
Mars 2020 Oct 10 and 11
There were great plans afoot to image the planets this long weekend: Friday Saturday and Sunday evenings. Friday evening, the observatory was opened, the scope cooled down, and were just…
How much does the roof weigh?
The original metal roof of the SCGO observatory has blown off twice in very high winds, once by the remnants of a hurricane and the other by a blizzard. It…