Total Solar Eclipse raw video
This is the complete video that we have from the Total Solar Eclipse from south of Jay Em Wyoming on Monday 2017 August 21st. The camcorder does record a timestamp…
20170821 Solar Eclipse
This is the first processing run of the total solar eclipse video shot on Monday 2017 August 21 south of Jay Em Wyoming. We used Movie Maker that comes with…
The Great 2017 Solar Eclipse Road Trip
At mostly the last minute, we decided to drive to Wyoming to witness the 2017 August 21 Total Solar Eclipse. Why Wyoming? Mainly because the historical weather records showed us…
Tardis Observatory goings on
This has been our constant companion for a month now… a snake in the observatory. Ewwwww. At least he still leaves fairly easily when pushed out the door. The Torus…
Garlic harvest begins
The SCGO Great Garlic Harvest of 2017 has begun. We pull up only the garlic that is ready, with 2-3 leaves dried out. Since there are over 75 types, we…
Replacing the focus mount adapter
This is the “before” image of the 2″ wooden adapter between the telescope primary cell and the 2″ focuser. It is needed as the original setup included the filter wheel,…
dangers of working in observatories
We spent some time working on the Torus telescope and Tardis observatory yesterday.. maybe an hour working on the wheels and rail transport and then moved inside to work on…
Tardis wheels
A few weeks back we changed out the six regular wheels that moved the Tardis Observatory off from the telescope, to four inverted V wheels on an angle iron rail.…
testing the lens
We purchased a canon 75-300mm zoom lens for astronomy purposed, but have not yet had a lot of chance to try it out. So in the daylight of the backyard…
Telescope Mirror Cleaning time
This is the 20cm telescope mirror from “Starbuck”, Kim’s newtonian on a Dobsonian mount. Having just come back from the RASC General Assembly, she has refilled the motivation reservoir and…
Allsky2 camera operational
The allsky2 camera system has been down since mid April 2017. We thought it was the camera. After receiving a replacement and having it fail as well, attention turned to…
Roll Off Building Observatory reno
The Tardis Observatory was reno’d last weekend in the form of removing x6 4″ rubber/poly wheels, flipping the L angle iron to an inverted V, and adding in x4 inverted…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden 20170618
We stopped by the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden last Sunday, to see how they were doing. From these image, things are great! Nice and tidy, neat, well weeded and…