Garlic Harvest 2026
A better than average year for garlic. Very little winterkill if any at all. Leek moth damage was less than normal. Harvest was completed on 2026July24: Drying this year was…
Saturn 20260829
Even getting up 30 minutes earlier, at 03:30 EDT, does not mean Saturn is still in the east. It has moved to the west, an azimuth of over 180 degrees!…
Saturn 20260822
Another early morning imaging session at 04:00. Transparency was average 5/10 and seeing was poor 2/10. Seeing may have been a little bit better at the start of the session…
Saturn 20260821
Saturn from this morning. 34th imaging session of 2026. Best 15% 12K frames, seeing average 5/10, transparency average 5/10 before this run the finderscope mount was repaired as was the…
Saturn 20260820
The 33rd imaging run of the year from the Serenity II observatory here at SCGO. seeing was poor 2/10, transparency average 5/10 best 10% of 11K frames at 15ms each…
Perseids 2026
The 2026 Perseid Meteor shower was pretty typical. Nothing too spectacular and only 1 or 2 nights of relatively good rates. Each image filename contains the date and the number…
Saturns Moons 20260805
Greetings! A game changer in wavelet processing has happened. I’ve been meaning to dive into wavesharp for some months now, trying to replace registax as my wavelet processing step. I…
Saturn 20260811
Up and out before 04:00 edt this morning. Realigned the finder scope to the main optics. Tried using polaris and moving the scope in N/S Dec moved the star, moving…