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…
Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Every spring one of the chores/unpacking from winter is the cleaning of the pond. This year we actually took it out, all the rocks, added some more soil and replaced…
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…
A fun filled day with local gardening experts and vendors. Showcasing Greater Napanees’ talented residents in all things horticulture related. Best and Bash Arena 16 McPherson DriveNapanee, ON Four area…
A nice clear sky greeted us Tuesday evening after a dumping of white cold feathers the previous 24 hours. Seeing was a little better than average (6/10) but then went…
Last night was a good example of the downside of rolloff observatories. Yes it was clear but it was also very windy and gusty and the Telescope was vibrating like…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden 2025 2025 Note: The Data Process: Raw harvest data is transcribed from the logbook onsite into an excel spreadsheet. Quantities are converted from all kinds…
If you can believe it, this is the first Jupiter imaging session since January 9th.. Better yet, Jupiter was near its highest altitude, so less air to look through, than…
Up at 04:30 EST this morning , bundling up in the -18.2C temperature, to image as much of the total lunar eclipse that we could. We used a Canon DSLR…