Home Automation
Home Automation has always been a goal… automating, making more convenient, better information and better control. Over the years we have tried many items. The very old X10 power system…
Mercury 2021 Jan 23
This is an image of Mercury, at its Greatest Eastern Elongation on 2021 January 23rd, looking West Southwest. At the time this image was taken, Mercury had a magnitude of…
Mars and Uranus 2021 Jan 24
This is a size reduced annotated image of the planet Mars and the planet Uranus on the COLD! evening (-16C) . Mars (top of image) was placed nicely overhead and…
2021jan08 – 3 planet conjunction
We searched out via google maps for a location with a good horizon to the southwest. Tonight was going to be the first clear evening in days.. weeks almost! We…
winter comes
And just like that it is 2021, start of a new year and a new decade. These are the days… of binge watching television series. So far: Brave New World…
Jupiter 2020dec15
Best 5% of 4K frames It has been a typical November month of cloud.. but we were able to get outside Tuesday evening and image the now very very low…
Allsky1pi did *not* capture 2020dec07 fireball event
After the great “Brockville” fireball of 2020dec07, 19:30EST, we checked allsky1pi as well to see if it recorded the event that allsky2 (UWO) captured. It did not. Hmm… wonder why…
Fireball Monday 2020Dec07 19:30:38 EST
A nice fireball entered the atmosphere around 95km up just north of Fort Drum in Upper New York State, heading north, and ending 36km up just northwest of Brockville Ontario.…
Mars 2020Nov14
Mars on the cold evening of Saturday Nov 14th. It was already -6C but clear and relatively stable air. To get around the postprocessing overexposure of the last few nights,…
Weather – Frost update 2020
We maintain and publish date and growing season information based on the first and last light frosts (-1C) and the first and last heavy frost (-3C) of each season. This…
Mars 2020nov04
Mars on Wednesday evening during the weekly social chat videoconference. Now that we are on Standard Time, it is a little easier to get outside and image in the evening.…
Mars 2020Nov01
After the last session on Oct30, I thought there were dust spots on the camera sensor window glass, so this was cleaned. I wanted to test it but there were…
Mars 2020Oct30
A good clear night, the first in a long time, albeit a little cold. Mars is now up high fairly early on in the evening, so we went out and…
Linux Fedora 33 released
Today was a good day. Linux Fedora 33 came out today. And is the upgrade process ever fast! and stable! in less than 1 hour we have upgraded 4 server…
Mars 2020Oct21
Mars Wednesday evening. It was unexpectedly somewhat clear, at least in the direction of Mars, last night. A lot of cloud all around, affecting other imagers to some degree. This…