Got collimation?
Over the last few months we do not seem to be getting the performance out of our 20cm Vixen telescope. Everything has been cleaned, the 90 degree diagonal has been…
Garlic Planting 2022
And it is DONE! The SCGO Garlic Planting of 2022. It went quicker and easier than past years, thanks to a lot of prep work up front. cracking the bulbs…
Today’s Gardening Adventures
The day started out cold -2C but the sun was shining. The wind coming from the SSW at 11 km/h and gusty. I quickly got out to do some Solar…
Local seeing is not good
Tuesday evening around 20:00 local I opened up the observatory with the intent to do an optical collimation and some imaging of Saturn and Jupiter. It was hazy, The near…
20 years of frost
This is the data from our weather station located current in our vegetable beds out back. The station is approx 2m above ground in a grassy/earthen area, well area from…
Jupiter 20220930
This is the first image of Jupiter since the 2022 opposition (4 days past opposition). Altitude was at max , seeing and transparency were average, but the focus still was…