Double the compost, double the fun!
Compost. What fun. We’ve had and used a compost pile for kitchen scraps, yard waste, etc for years. But as always with compost piles, they never get treated correctly, oft…
SCGO renos and repairs
The Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories 1st rolloff roof observatory was built in 2003. It is an 8×10 metal shed from Canadian Tire that was repurposed. The external rails/outriggers are…
Supersid update
The SuperSID radio telescope system has had some coding updates. As of yesterday: The supersidpi data logger copies its data every hour to the file server every hour the file…
Mid April 2021
An interim post… weather has been nicer and warmer than average over the last two weeks, but now that has passed and we are back to below average temperatures and…
Radiojove issue
Yes.. another astronomy post… well.. it just snowed again yesterday and went down to -7C this morning.. so gardening season is not quite here yet. So.. onto RadioAstronomy! On sunday…
The Last Pi
The last Pi. We have one last Raspberry Pi Model 1 B available and will be trying to set it up as well. We are short one power supply, so…
Raspberry Pis Rule
Raspberry Pis are Great. Raspberry Pis Rule! Not only do they reduce our electrical/environmental loads, but they are stable as heck. Our weatherpi now has an uptime of 61 days.…
SupersidPi now connected to supersid receiver
Great! The experimental SuperSIDPi was connected to the SuperSID receiver yesterday morning and is now data logging real live data. The data file is being saved to the pi and…
supersid pi project failure 2020Feb Notes
These are the notes we made during another attempt at replacing the windows netbook running supersid v1.2.2 with a raspberry pi project. This would hopefully use less power (up to…
SuperSID Raspberry Pi SUCCESS!
After the last failure of trying to get python data logging code onto a Raspberry Pi 3B and failing with the latest Raspbian Buster OS (20210111), we decided to try…
Raspberry Pi SuperSID
Here we go again.. another attempt at building a SuperSID Monitor and data logger on a Raspberry Pi computer. Current running on a netbook with Windows 7, the netbook is…
Mars and Uranus 2021Feb03
We successfully imaged the planet Uranus back on 2021Jan24. At that time, an out of focus image helped to identify the planet showing a greenish cast. The most recent image…
Home air filter
CBC Marketplace had an interesting segment this week, on home air filters. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/portable-air-purifier-tests-marketplace-1.5900782 Interesting as well because we had built a DIY air filter a month or two ago: Unlike…
ISS 2021feb06
The International Space Station passed over our location last night.. a low pass, peaking at 24 deg altitude. The issue was twilight… it was not dark enough to use a…