Spacex Crew Dragon and ISS
On Launch day, Saturday 2020 May 30th, we observed a late evening pass of the International Space Station (ISS) and the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. We used Heavens Above which…
Irrigation rocks!
Over the weekend we installed out first irrigation system, the Irrigation Direct Canada “Drip Irrigation Watering Kit for Row Crops”. We installed it in vegbed4, where the fall planted garlic…
sandboxing in the greenhouse
Last fall we decided to do another greenhouse renovation. a few years before we insulated the north wall, so thought it would be a good time to insulate another wall,…
Birds!
This is a Downey Woodpecker, one of at least a few that come by and try to destroy our sunflower seed feeders. We were testing a very old pentax K…
Raised Veg Beds
And this is the latest design revision for our raised beds. This is VegBed2, first built in 2005 out of mini garden ties. Over time they were thought to be…
K vs Squirrel
The latest in the me vs squirrel battle. The squirrels refuse to believe the argument that a bird feeder is for birds and not Squirrels. This is the latest rebuild…
a sign of the times
A sign of the Covid19 times, the Colebrook playground is out of bounds. We did a drive around the area, and actually there are very few indicators of anything out…
2017 august 21 eclipse
Just thinking back to the 2017 August 21st eclipse in Wyoming and could not find the air temperature data we took… so here it is, maybe again:
two great startrails
The allsky1pi camera system project is awesome. The last two nights have been relatively clear and the images it is generating are very nice! These startrails are from the last…
two nice meteors
Two nice meteors in the last two days: North up, south down, west right, east left. Saturday 2020 April 11, 04:13:07 UT = Saturday 2020 April 11, 00:13:07 EDT This…
Allsky1pi update
We are superduper happy with the allsky1pi camera project. It has better resolution and colour images over the older allsky1 system (2006-2018) running a very old SBIG ST237A camera system.…
Allskypi Camera System Project
The allskypi camera system is pretty much operational, subject to a few additional tweaks in the upcoming days. This is the first report giving background details: allskypiCameraproject20200308v2 Many thanks to…
Allskypi camera sensor temp review
Allskypi is an allsky camera system with a ZWO ASI 120MC camera and wide angle lens protruding out into a 4″ transparent dome, with the remainder of the camera and…
Seedy Saturday 2020
**CANCELLED due to COVID9*** From https://www.kingstonist.com/news/seedy-saturday-offers-local-green-thumbs-an-early-start-to-their-gardening/ Gardeners, from novice to expert, take note: The Kingston Area Seed System Initiative (KASSI) will be holding their annual Seedy Saturday on Saturday, Mar.…