Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Finally! A night without horrible cloud cover and snow! There was a mostly full moon however, but still we were able to visually observe Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy with 10×50…
gas gas gas
Some interesting numbers from the past 4 years. We record information at every gas fillup with our vehicle and we do try to manage the balance between dollar averaging purchases…
A Light at Night
Upper Canada Village is a heritage park in the village of Riverside near Morrisburg, Ontario, which depicts a 19th-century village in Upper Canada. We first visited it earlier in the…
Allsky1 Reno
This is the Allsky1 Camera System running at SCGO since 2006 December (now 8 years old!) It is an ST237A SBIG camera with an integrated wide angle lens mounted inside…
The Hobbit has arrived… or will soon!
The last of three parts to the Tolkien work “The Hobbit” will be arriving in theatres this week. We have prepared by rewatching parts 1 and 2, namely An Unexpected…
Linux Fedora 21
The latest in the Linux Fedora distribution was released Tuesday, 2014 Dec 09. It now comes in three major versions, workstation, server and the new cloud. Not sure what that…
linux drive replacement
Another data backup drive that is old and small and getting too full. The system is running linux fedora 20 on an older piece of hardware.. at least it has…