Garlic Planting 2023
And it is DONE again! The SCGO Garlic Planting of 2023. It went quicker and easier than past years, thanks to a lot of prep work up front. cracking the…
Partial Annular Solar Eclipse 20231014
This image was taken just after maximum eclipse. Serendipitously an aircraft flew right over it. We missed the actual aircraft part but we did catch the contrails left by its…
Garlic Harvest 2023 Data
The 2023 Garlic Harvest is complete. Over the course of 4 mornings, Kim dug up, organized, tied and hung up approx 1392 garlic plants. They dried over the next 3…
Jupiter 20230922
The best of this mornings imaging run of Jupiter. The best 5% which also shows Europa in the upper left and the great red spot as well. The latest animated…
Garlic Harvest and Processing 2023 complete
Phew! Kim worked hard and has completed the processing of the 2023 SCGO Garlic Harvest. This involved cutting the tops and bottoms off, cleaning the dirt off and then measuring…
Jupiter 2nd night 20230828
From later in the morning on Monday. Jupiter was almost overhead… 60 degrees of altitude! very little if any atmospheric dispersion in colouring but still not absolutely clear or steady.…
Jupiter? 20230827
This is Jupiter believe it or not. This is in the middle of a run of approx 10 runs that were batch processed in Autostakkert! v3 and is the only…
Jupiter 20230827
Jupiter later the same morning as the previous Saturn post. Still not really great… I am still trying to recreate the 2016 ultracrisp seeing images that I took. This shows…
Saturn 20230827 – opposition!
One of the first times that I can remember that I have been able to image a planet at opposition. In theory this would be the closest and best time…
Jupiter 20230724
Attached is the best image of Jupiter from Monday morning’s imaging session. Details are annotated onto the bottom of the image but just in case: Processed with firecapture, autostakkert! registax!…
Saturn 20230724
It has been a month or more? since the last clear morning skies that also worked with my schedule. Monday morning was nice! Details are annotated onto the bottom of…
Garlic Harvest 2023
The 2023 Garlic Harvest is complete. Over the course of 4 mornings, Kim dug up, organized, tied and hung up approx 1392 garlic plants. They will dry over the next…
Thunderstorm tornado warning
Happy Canada Day! Three tornado warnings and a severe thunderstorm warning… and a severe thunderstorm! No hail, just a lot of wind. Two video recordings have been compressed. The first…
Allsky1 rebuild
The SCGO Allsky1pi Camera system was rebuilt on June 12th, 2023. The testing of using a raspberry pi Cam F was a failure, so we went back to using the…
Luna 2023May23
The moon last evening, 4 days old, 18% illuminated. This was the 13th imaging session of the year for me and after a kit if basic mechanics/processes, I managed to…