Allsky1 camera celebrates 10 years!
After the installation of a new light shield The Allsky1 camera system at the StarlightCascade Gardens and Observatory, outside Yarker Ontario Canada, was fired up for the first time in…
Jupiter 20170130
Finally! A clear morning for the first time in 2 weeks. a bracing -16C with no wind. Only managed 5 runs this morning as it was cold cold cold and…
Jupiter 20170115
Didn’t get outside until 06:00 this morning… too beat from all of yesterdays events. Seeing was average, transparency was poor, and that bright 90% moon was getting closer to Jupiter…
Jupiter 20170114
I went out at 04:00 to -18C and a lot of frozen bits. Observatory doors slightly open from windstorm a few days ago, roof slightly pushed a bit and frozen…
2016 Review
Every end of year, we put together a year end review letter and send out to friends and family. More and more over the years it is trending to pictures…
Napanee Community Garden Stats 2016
Despite one of the driest summers on record… a level 3 drought condition was decalred by the local Conservation Authority, on site irrigation helped to produce one of the better…
Jupiter 20161227
In the midst of a lot of cloud, there opened up a 90 minute window on Tuesday morning of clear skies. This was the first image of 37 runs, at…
Jupiter 20161225
Happy Christmas and the skies cleared a little just around 07:00EST And then they came back again -4C with winds 5-20kph from the NW Jupiter was at zenith and only…
Jupiter 20161223
After a few years of imaging now, I have gone through a few variations of recording image data. I’ve made up a new template to try out now as well……
Jupiter 20161221
Predicted to be clear this morning, got up at 05:00 EST and it was cloudy with a few holes. Went outside anyway and it turned out to be the best…
Possible ice/frost quake
On a side note, it hit -27C at about 01:30 this morning… and the house did make some cracking noises. More interestingly, an apparent frost quake or icequake hit the…
Jupiter 20161208
Another morning forecast to be cloudy but turned out to be relatively clear. Temp: -1C Transparency: average (based on 40-50ms exposure time giving 80% histogram exposure and Seeing: poor (based…
Jupiter 20161206
Surprisingly, it was “clear” again this morning, against all predictions from last evening. Rolled outside around 05:15 EST to low level fog and -5C and a frozen stuck roll off…
next raspberry pi project
Now that the 1st Raspberry Pi Project has been up and running for a good and solid two months with the Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories Weather Station, it is…
Frost data 2016
We’ve been running a weather station here since 2003 and as a result, have local data for temperatures. This has been especially important as our vegetable and flower gardens really…