Our 1st meteor smoke trail!
Early this morning at approx 03:07:12 EDT (07:07:12 UTC) we had a good, bright bolide/fireball, and even better it was right overhead, and even better… it left a smoke trail!…
Gardening goes slow
For the last week now, we have been dismantling our old fencing around veg beds 4&5. This whole garden started small and every year got bigger and bigger, hence it…
Saturn 20160524 UT
Saturn the same night as Jupiter and Mars, but even lower to the horizon. No cassini division visible, poor seeing and poor transparency. It can only get better!
Mars 20160524 UT
Mars as imaged still very low to the southeastern horizon, right in the light pollution dome of Kingston, Ontario. Mars is approaching closest approach for the next 26 months and…
Jupiter 20160524 UT
It’s been 10 days since my last imaging run, mostly because of being away for the last week and then prepping for the last week. Went outside and discovered that…
Jupiter 20160514 UT
A poor session of imaging Jupiter in the evening. Gets dark very late now… not worth imaging before 21:30 EDT. Otherwise I get strange colour balancing going on with RGB…
Jupiter 20160611 UT
I modified the LX200 back to planetary imaging (after the Mercury Transit event) by removing the f3.3 focal reducer and putting the microfocuser back on, along with the televue x3…
Mars 20160528
Well, Mars did not turn out too well last night. At best it was 17 degrees off the horizon. What with mosquitos and cloud coming in, that was as good…
The tomatos hit the ground
The heirloom tomatos were transplanted into the ground over the last few days and we are not done yet… still trying to find more garden space to put the remainder…
When the Ground met the Potatos
The potatos have finally hit the ground. Much later than we wanted, given the extremely high temperatures we have been having here of late (high 20’s C and into 30+…
Jupiter 20160506 UT
Went outside to clear skies and a bit of a wind to test out the celestron nextar GT mount. In the meantime I fired up a new beta of firecapture…
Season of Dirt
There we go… our annual purchase of dirt to help create flower and veg beds on our rocky rocky land. This is 7yds of triple mix earth running at about…
Telescope mount reno
The Transit of Mercury is coming up soon and we are still scrambling to put together a tracking telescope mount in case we have to go travelling to get out…
Ontario Canada Electricity rates, highest in North America?
A news story today from http://www.640toronto.com/syn/104/88985/hydro-rates-climbing-ont *** It’s now going to be just a little bit pricier to do your laundry or run the dishwasher in the middle of the…
Jupiter 20160428
Another attempted Jupiter imaging session Wednesday evening.. I know I know, up against “Survivor!” There was high passing cloud that “Clear Outside” said was 2%. Ha! It sure was lit…