Upgrading an Imac
This is a tale of upgrading an imac… a 21.5″ late 2015 imac to be precise. We bought it, we used it, it started slowing down.. a lot. various upgrades…
Another meteor event 20190309 02:22:23 UTC
Another fireball captured on the Allsky2 camera system, first reported by a local astronomer in a hot tub 🙂 The 4MB video can be seen here. We captured only the…
Sky Anomaly
Greetings… this is an interesting one. A sky anomaly went overhead last night (Thursday 2019 March 7th) at 23:38:30 UTC, 18:38:30 EST overhead towards the north. A link to the13…
8 second meteor 2019 March 01
Upon reviewing and discovering bugs in the last weeks worth of Allsky2 camera code, I processed it manually and came across this nice 8 second meteor on the morning of…
SSD upgrade
Wow. This is for any imagers in particular out there, with a desktop of laptop computer with a spinning hard drive. Replace it with a Solid State Drive (SSD). Now!…
Snowbound
What do we do when stuck inside for the winter? Revisit some classic video. We started with the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Trilogy, which took a little over…
Linux Fedora 29
This website has been running on linux fedora forever… at least 15 years if not more. Back in the day we started with 32 bit linux, as that is all…
video finder
We’ve recently taken these two items and put them together to create a usb digital webcam finder, as opposed to the traditional video camera with an Analog to Digital converter…
L&A Hort met this week
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2019 January 16th 7pm at our new location for the year: – Meeting, the Morning Star Mission, 59 Water…
365 Days of Astronomy
In the theme of 365 Days of Astronomy, we made a New Year Resolution to attempt to observe or image every day possible in 2019. These are the results This…
Friday Night imaging
A nice night for a change, Friday evening. Maybe a little hazy (what? why with a forecast of freezing fog? Took out the old DSLR on a tripod and did…
oh2019 bindings and coils
Greetings this penultimate day! In any event, we received out RASC Observers Handbook 2019, a backbreaking 352 pages with narrow margins. As usual, we take it to Staples to get…
linux fedora grub
For many years now, one linux fedora server I maintain had issues with every dnf upgrade that involved a new kernel. It would not place configuration information into boot/grub2/grub.cfg and…
Pi backup
MFLASH 5000mAh Rubberized Power Bank – has been added to a raspberry pi as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). It was on a Black Friday sale for $10, down from…