Garlic Harvest 2026
A better than average year for garlic. Very little winterkill if any at all. Leek moth damage was less than normal. Harvest was completed on 2026July24: Drying this year was…
Saturn 20260829
Even getting up 30 minutes earlier, at 03:30 EDT, does not mean Saturn is still in the east. It has moved to the west, an azimuth of over 180 degrees!…
Saturn 20260822
Another early morning imaging session at 04:00. Transparency was average 5/10 and seeing was poor 2/10. Seeing may have been a little bit better at the start of the session…
Saturn 20260821
Saturn from this morning. 34th imaging session of 2026. Best 15% 12K frames, seeing average 5/10, transparency average 5/10 before this run the finderscope mount was repaired as was the…
Saturn 20260820
The 33rd imaging run of the year from the Serenity II observatory here at SCGO. seeing was poor 2/10, transparency average 5/10 best 10% of 11K frames at 15ms each…
Perseids 2026
The 2026 Perseid Meteor shower was pretty typical. Nothing too spectacular and only 1 or 2 nights of relatively good rates. Each image filename contains the date and the number…
Saturns Moons 20260805
Greetings! A game changer in wavelet processing has happened. I’ve been meaning to dive into wavesharp for some months now, trying to replace registax as my wavelet processing step. I…
Saturn 20260811
Up and out before 04:00 edt this morning. Realigned the finder scope to the main optics. Tried using polaris and moving the scope in N/S Dec moved the star, moving…
Saturn 20260629
A pre 04:00edt imaging session of Saturn this morning. The best image turned out to be the last before it got too bright at 08:49 UTC (04:49EDT). This is the…
Saturn 20260707
An early imaging session of Saturn this morning. The best image turned out to be one of the first before it got too bright at 08:09 UTC (04:09EDT). This is…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden – 17 years!
At a recent Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society and Garden Club meeting (2026 June 17) it was noted that the club gave a donation to the ongoing efforts of a…
Wilfred Buck
From an article I wrote back in 2024: –cut here– We drove out to the Summer Saskatchewan Star Party in 2006. We arrived on site and had one of the…
VegBed1 reno
VegBed#1, first built in 2002, has been moved a couple of ties and rebuilt with garden ties, with the thought that they would last longer. They did not. We also…
Jupiter 20260411
Saturday evening was my 12th imaging session of the year… and cold enough that my sinuses were not happy this morning! Last night was a special event.. the moon Callisto…