L&A Hort met this week
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2020 February 19th at our new location of St. Patricks Church, 179 West St, Napanee. Ample free parking across…
Allsky1pi operational
The new allsky1 version3 camera system. The camera is a ZWO ASI 120MC (not cooled) with a 2.1mm lens giving approx a 150 degree field of view. The housing was…
Allsky1pi aka allskypi
This is part of the new allsky1pi camera system, specifically the ZWO ASI 120mc camera with its included wideangle lens, and a reaspberry pi model 3b. The camera is mounted…
weather underground? – dont count on it
The last couple of years, on what used to be the premier free weather data aggregating server, has gone to hell. Lost accounts, lost configurations, deleting features then adding them…
opposition 2020
This image shows Mars at 7.2 arcseconds in diameter and a declination of +0deg 52 min and an altitude of 22 deg, and using 3ms exposures. Following up on the…
advice from down under
We were wondering through youtube this morning and came across some nice videos of an Australian astronomer Dylan O’Donnell. This one was particularly nice: We use some of the software…
L&A Hort Met This Week
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2020 January 15th 7pm at the Morning Star Mission, 59 Water St., Napanee. 15 members and guests were in…
Betelgeuse
This is the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion. The image on the left is from 2019 October 23 and the image on the right from 2019…
Allskypi pathfinder project
Our v2 allsky camera was an SBIG ST237A camera and was operational from 2006Dec-2018July. Ever since then we have been toying around with building another system out of existing spare…
Asteroid Bennu – mapping
This image shows sample site Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. The image is overlaid with a graphic of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to illustrate the scale of…
The Expanse – Season 4
Season 4 of The Expanse, a television series based on the works of James S. A. Corey (the pen name used by collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) released all…
acurite weather station
It’s been over a week now since the new weather station (Acurite Pro model 06004) went operational in the back gardens. There have been signal dropouts and there has been…
Pi Projects update
The weatherpi (3B model) data logger for the Acurite Pro Weather Station has been operational now for over 5 days straight, with the weather sensor out in the back vegetable…
pi pi everywhere a pi
We recently did an inventory of all of the Raspberry Pi computers we had kicking about: 1x pi1b 2014ish 1 core 700 MHz, 512MB, 2xUSB2, ethernet, hdmi 1x pi2b 2016ish…
Early Christmas
After many months of being without a weather station, we finally found one that should work for us. This is an Acurite Pro (model number yet to be determined). It…