annual daylight saving time rant
Sunday 2018 March 11th, a day that will live in infamy! Yet another (@#%(*^%@#!! daylight saving time switch. Luckily, some with pull are starting to think about it now as…
Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
Sunday 2018 March 11th, a day that will live in infamy! Yet another (@#%(*^%@#!! daylight saving time switch. Luckily, some with pull are starting to think about it now as…
This is the baseline image taken the night before the Total Lunar Eclipse. This was 2018 Jan 30 at 18:20 EST with an old Canon DSLR with a 300mm lens…
Microsoft Windows 10 just did another update on one of our old data logging computers, a Toshiba Netbook NB305. After the reboot, it was unresponsive. Many reboots later it was…
This is our Celestron C80 refractor. It too had dirty optics, in particular, the spacers between the primary lens doublet had moved away from the edge and into the central…
What does an astronomer do when it is cloudy and very cold? Not much astronomy to be sure. So instead of observing the stars with telescopes, lets do some disassembly!…
Welcome to 2018. And what do we do? Retrospect back to 2017! This is the 2017 summary of midnight images from the allsky1 camera system at SCGO. It successfully recorded…
Welcome to 2018. Welcome to Mars. How do these two statements connect? With this image of the Dora cat with green laser eyes and a very nifty mat. We came…
This is my new (used) mount, a Meade LXD55. It comes with a battery holder for x8 D size batteries, but I suspect it would go through that pretty quick.…
From: http://news.softpedia.com/news/server-edition-of-fedora-27-linux-is-finally-here-but-it-lacks-modularity-518967.shtml Three weeks after the launch of the Fedora 27 Linux operating system, the Fedora Project announced the release of Fedora 27 Server edition, but it’s not what you…
There have been server issues for the last few days… hard to troubleshoot and diagnose to be sure. Thought it was a bad mariadb database, maybe bad guys getting into…
You know its going to be a bad day when you see a reciprocating saw in the observatory This is the 2nd of 2 piers that have had to be…
Wow.. another December already? Already three months plus past our first total solar eclipse, out in Southeastern Wyoming. We continue on experimenting with Raspberry Pi model 2B microcomputers and have…
Reviewing allsky camera events overnight with coffee this morning and found this great big fireball in the north, heading north at 05:10:15 UT 2017nov11 -5 hours puts it at Saturday…
Last week we noticed that the cable connected to the southern dipole antenna of the RadioJove system was broken/disconnected. Not a surprise as it has been up for over six…