Jupiter 2015 March 23
A good imaging session of Jupiter last night – 2015 March 23 Local from around 19:45 to 20:15 EDT (UT-4) For the first time this year, a dew shield was…
L&AHortSoc met last night
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2015 March 18). There was a good turnout of 29 people in spite of another…
crash recovery
Our server had a power supply fail, taking with it many sectors of the 320GB SATA hard drive. The bad sectors contained a lot of the mysql database. Luckily we…
Jupiter 2015 March 05
Another night of imaging Jupiter. Used a newer version of firecapture 2.4.0.8 beta for the first time. Might have been a little slower with a few usb bus artifacts. Seeing…
Jupiter 2015Feb28
This was the first clear night where the temperatures were not colder than -20C with a stiff wind. Even so it was about -15 with a little breeze early Saturday…
Lunar imaging
This is the first attempt at lunar imaging (Mare Crisium region) with the ZWO ASI 120MC camera on a 10cm Meade SC Monday night (2015 Feb 23) in the late…
Conjunction
A nice grouping of Mars (top, dim), Venus (left, bright) and a crescent Moon on Friday 2015 Feb 20th. Taken with a small Canon Powershot on a tripod, 1 second…
Jupiter & imaging
One of the really nice things about digital imaging is that when you screw up, there is still a chance that you can fix things. Back on the early morning…
stove accessories
This is our first winter with a wood pellet stove. It has not been doing too badly at all: a lot less heavy wood carrying frequency; most of it water…
The Walking Dead
The much anticipated Season 5, second half of The Walking Dead, our favourite zombie show, is coming up this Sunday evening. In preparation, that day we will sit down and…
Jupiter 20150130
Friday evening, early cause it was getting cold, I went out and was upgrading the learning curve of imaging by switching from the 20cm dobsonian (fl=1200mm) and a drift scan…
Imaging Jupiter
1st time outside in weeks to do some imaging of Comet Lovejoy. Total Bust. Managed to find it in the scope but its much too big to see in the…
Infrastructure outages
Amazing… a cable internet failure and a power failure all in one day. The cable internet (Eastlink) went out on Tuesday 2015 Jan 13th around 18:30 EST. The power (HydroOne)…
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Another cold night but at least it cleared. This is Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy on the evening of Monday 2015 January 12th around 19:29EST taken with a Canon Powershot ELPH…
Elementary
There is a lot more television out there than there used to be. And sometimes it is actually getting better than it used to be. Elementary is an example of…