Solar Flare C8.6 20210422-2006UTC
Its Solar Flare Season again! This note came from the Radiojove email list from John Avellone, Shenandoah Valley Virginia/West Virginia): “More solar activity @ 20MHz. Attached chart for 200330 –…
SCGO renos and repairs part 2
Most rolloff roof observatory designs have a “flippy board” feature that flips up before rolling the roof off. This allows for clearance of any instruments you may have inside, and…
Double the compost, double the fun!
Compost. What fun. We’ve had and used a compost pile for kitchen scraps, yard waste, etc for years. But as always with compost piles, they never get treated correctly, oft…
SCGO renos and repairs
The Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories 1st rolloff roof observatory was built in 2003. It is an 8×10 metal shed from Canadian Tire that was repurposed. The external rails/outriggers are…
Supersid update
The SuperSID radio telescope system has had some coding updates. As of yesterday: The supersidpi data logger copies its data every hour to the file server every hour the file…
Mid April 2021
An interim post… weather has been nicer and warmer than average over the last two weeks, but now that has passed and we are back to below average temperatures and…
Radiojove issue
Yes.. another astronomy post… well.. it just snowed again yesterday and went down to -7C this morning.. so gardening season is not quite here yet. So.. onto RadioAstronomy! On sunday…