Saturn 20160319
Possibly the best images of Saturn to date as well. Early Saturday morning, 7 imaging runs before it got too bright, from 06:23 to 06:31 EDT (10:23 to 10:31 UT)…
Mars 20160319
After a late night of imaging Jupiter, I was up early on Saturday morning with a coffee, brain not yet engaged, when I looked outside to see it still dark…
Jupiter 20160319
Possibly the best imaging runs of Jupiter to date. clear skies, -8C temp, and Jupiter near zenith. Started imaging at 20:53EDT on Friday evening 2016 March 18 and ended around…
Mars & Saturn 20160317
It cleared up unexpectedly this morning (Thursday 2016 March 17th) so a quick imaging run of Mars (very near beta scorpii) and Saturn. Both were horrible as even though near…
Even more conservation
Our electricity rates in Ontario I believe are the highest in Canada. We use time of day with 8.3; 12.8 and 17.5 cents/kwh at offpeak, midpeak and onpeak demand. The…
Daylight Saving Time is a bad idea
Another semi-annual rant against changing time. It is amazing how much inertia this has… created to save energy costs 100 years ago and people still think it is applicable and…
Jupiter 20160312
The first nice clear, nottocold night in a long time… too bad I could not stay awake any longer than I did… the last images were the best! Seeing was…
Jupiter 2016 March 08
The skies cleared unexpectedly Monday evening, with clouds all around and threatening to move in, So I bounced outside to open the observatory and start a quick imaging run. That…
Saturn 2016 March 06
Another clear patch forecast for this morning and presto chango! it was kinda not too bad clear. poor seeing and poor transparency. At 05:00 this morning it was already well…
Jupiter 20160304
Friday evening 2016 March 4th, showed the firstclear sky promise in a long time.. with several days earlier this week promising but not delivering. Tonight it delivered. Was not to…
Jupiter 2016 Feb 26 take 2
First twofor observing runs in the same day in a very long time. After the 01:00 am run this morning I went back out in the evening at 20:00 EST…
Jupiter 2016Feb26
As noted previously, it was a bad morning for imaging, but what else are you going to do? -13C and a good wind of 20kph with gusts. The telescope shook…
Supersid system update
Early this morning (Thursday 2016 February 18th at 06:15 local, 11:15UT) we did some modifications to the Supersid data logging software configuration file. Specifically three of the six stations were…
L&A Hort met last night
The Napanee Garden Club (aka The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society) met last night at the Napanee Fire Hall Community Room at 7pm. The business was done up front, with…