Torus repairs
The winter was particularly hard on the Torus scope, as a mouse like critter got into the scope and chewed through wires. When the telescope was first fired up this…
Allsky1 Reno
The Allsky1 camera system has been up and running since December 2005… coming up on 10 years! Last week, we renovated it by removing the 14″ dome, removed the 28watts…
bye bye starchoice
When we moved into the country, there was no cable television. We decided on Starchoice satellite TV at that time and generally things went well. There were weather? related outages…
Jupiter 2015 Apr 16 01:30 UT
Jupiter last night (21:23 EDT). Tried using the Televue x2.5 barlow and focus was incredibly soft. Went back to no barlow at all and this is the result. Standard 6ms…
Jupiter 2015 April 15
First image of Jupiter in the observing run last night. 2015 April 15 at 00:48 UT. Using a 20cm Meade LX200, a ZWO ASI 120MC camera, firecapture software and autostakkert!…
Saturn 2015 April 14
Saturn on the morning of Tuesday 2015 April 14th, about 04:00 EDT 20cm Meade LX200GPS (FL=2000mm) with a celestron x2 barlow (=FL=4000mm) and ZWO ASI 120MC camera. 744 frames of…
Jupiter 2015 April 07
Went out last night at 23:30UT and at 01:00 UT April 8th. I try to file this run as 2015April07 It gets confusing imaging across the UT midnight. 1st time…
Spring? Not yet
This is as close as we have gotten to Spring so far this last few weeks… This was March 11th, one of the first warm sunny days in ages. We…
spring?
It was a good long weekend… albeit too short. We still have snow on the ground, the ground is still frozen, the greenhouse roof has a few holes in it,…
Server hardware issues
Apologies to one and all.. we have been experiencing some web server hardware issues over the last few weeks. Hopefully things are stable again for the time being. We are…
Jupiter 2015 April 01
Got in some quick imaging of Jupiter after 9pm local last night. Almost full moon within 30-40 degrees of Jupiter did not help too much. Meade 10cm SC F10 FL=1000mm…
Math is fun!
Leo Laporte on Twit.tv was recently talking about a new internet connected talking Barbie with the infamous “Math is Hard!” scandal. Well.. math is not hard and this is simple…
Jupiter 2015 March 28
Both Kim & I were out saturday night during Earth Hour, doing imaging runs of the moon and Jupiter. A brief survey of the local neighbourhood showed little to no…