Archive for May, 2022

4 results.

Life in the country – supersidpiant

May28
by catz on May 28, 2022 at 17:32
Posted In: astronomy


Just one little ant… just one little ant was seen on the supersidpi unit, out in the observatory.
A closer look showed that he had friends.. lots of friends…
We disconnected the unit from power, usb, usb audio and started shaking… and ants came out. lots and lots of ants.
Took it apart and lots and lots more …
took it completely apart and continued to find little black ants, ant eggs and more.
Cleaned all up, put it back together and hung it from a wall screw rather than sitting on the shelf.. we’ll see how it goes.

Comments Off on Life in the country – supersidpiant

Total Lunar Eclipse 2022May15/16

May17
by kevin on May 17, 2022 at 20:14 and modified on May 18, 2022. at 07:01
Posted In: astronomy

There was a total lunar eclipse on the evening of Sunday 2022May15th and ran past midnight into May 16th. We had a lot of cloud here that was coming in from the southwest. It hit us before totality but was thin enough that we still could image.
This was taken from a tripod with a Canon T7i (not tracking) with a 75-300mm telephone zoom lens.
Exposure was 1 second at f5.6 and ISO 3200

Comments Off on Total Lunar Eclipse 2022May15/16

Linux Fedora 35 to 36 upgrades in place

May11
by kevin on May 11, 2022 at 10:29 and modified on May 11, 2022. at 10:29
Posted In: tech

Linux Fedora 36 was released yesterday and already we have upgraded one data backup server, one file server, one dual boot laptop and are midway through another file server. So far so good, no issues with the inplace upgrades.
The command line sequence as root goes like this:

dnf upgrade –refresh
reboot
dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
dnf system-upgrade download –releasever=36
Transaction Summary
Total download size: 4.4 G
DNF will only download packages, install gpg keys, and check the transaction.
Is this ok [y/N]:
dnf system-upgrade reboot
dnf system-upgrade clean
dnf clean packages
dnf upgrade
Fedora 36 upgrade complete!

Comments Off on Linux Fedora 35 to 36 upgrades in place

Solar Flare X1.13 2022May03-13:25UTC

May04
by kevin on May 4, 2022 at 10:51
Posted In: astronomy

This is the SuperSID data from the X1.13 class solar flare that occurred on Tuesday 2022 May 03, peaking at 13:25 UTC (-4=09:25 EDT).
This is not too surprising as this SuperSID station monitors the ionosphere between southeastern Ontario and the coast of Maine, USA, to our east. The Sun was also away over to the east when this happened.
This is the new, still testing, graph produced with NOAA event annotations.

So it is *not* surprising that the RadioJOVE system did not capture the event, being outside of its detection area.

Comments Off on Solar Flare X1.13 2022May03-13:25UTC