Jupiter 20160427
An imaging session of Jupiter on Tuesday evening 2016 April 26 EDT, April 26/27 UT Sometimes it gets confusing, but all of the images are annotated in UT time, to…
Jupiter 20160423
Finally! Success! After three years + I have finally gotten an autoguiding system to work. Wow. This is going to be a game changer. In the past, because of the…
Sid2 shut down
We shut down SID2, the Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance system on Sunday 2016 April 24th. Over the last 2 years we have set it up indoors, moved it to an outside…
Jupiter 20160420
Wednesday evening showed a two day shy full moon lighting up the sky, but with Jupiter a fair ways up the sky. Always a good time to practice practice practice,…
Mars 20160417
Mars was actually a better target than Saturn was Sunday morning. Certainly brighter. The scale is also the same as the last two images. First time ever I am confident…
Saturn 20160417
Got up a little late on Sunday morning.. it was twilight already and Saturn was just about to go behind some trees. Wow.. the altitude is quite low! Note the…
Jupiter 20160417
Went outside for 15 minutes after getting home late Saturday night and did a couple of quick imaging runs of Jupiter. The Moon was getting brighter and closer to Jupiter…
GARDENING BEGINS!
This past weekend had our highest temperatures and best sun this year. What to do? Garden prep! 3 raised beds: weeds were cultivated out with a shallow pass of the…
LX200GPS command and control
I am attempting to upgrade the software command and control of the meade lx200gps (2003) and have some issues. The only software I have that has run reliably is handyavi…
Jupiter 20160414
Poor seeing and poor transparency with a 46% full moon less than 1/2 a sky away. GRS just leaving off the right side. Very smeary, fuzzy. Only did 11 runs…
Gardening Season starts Thursday
The free seed swap table at the 2016 March meeting of the Grassroots Growers meeting, held in Erinsville last month. We are still, this past weekend, experiencing night temperatures of…
Jupiter 20160409
After a good night of Public Outreach at the Queen’s University Observatory, the skies were still clear allowing for a short stint of imaging Jupiter. It was good to see…
Jupiter 20160409
A 3 hours gap in the cloud cover Friday evening had seeing and transparency at “average”. Jupiter was high up and was showing the Great Red Spot leaving the face.…
Jupiter 20160329
Wow… another clear night Tuesday night.. with no moon rising until after midnight! So outside to setup and start to image Jupiter from about 21:30-23:30 EDT. To my surprise, the…
Jupiter 20160326
Very good imaging run last night (Friday 2016 March 25) of Jupiter with the 20cm f10 with x2 barlow, asi120mc camera. The run went either side of Jupiter zenith, but…