Commissioning a new observatory computer
The existing laptop has been used as a telescope mount control and image capture for a few years. It has had its issues… USB2 only (not USB3 which most astro…
How to move an observatory
The Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories Serenity II observatory needed to move. It has been in its current location for approximately two years. In that time some of the thoughts…
Aurora KP8 2023April24
The static image from Google Pixel 6 Nightsight feature… a 4 minute exposure stacked and aligned. below is the video that created this static image. Of course it was cloudy……
Linux Fedora 37 to 38 upgrade
Linux Fedora 38 was released earlier this week and already we have upgraded three systems. So far so good, no issues with the inplace upgrades. The command line sequence as…
The google pixel 6 smartphone and nightsight
Wow! For wide field astrophotography I do not believe I have seen anything better! Attached is a 4 min exposure by nightsight, which stacks the moving bits only. Here you…
Radiojove back in operation
Our Radiojove telescope system went offline on 2023 March 21st. We found the issue… a chewed through in two places audio cable running from the RJ receiver to the USB…
Aurora! 2023March23
Aurora! Big storm! Lots of cloud. This is from the google pixel 6a smartphone on a tripod… nightsight 4 minute exposure, 7MB. We will add some still images later today.…
The SCGO Science Library – update
This is actually our first shelf A second pass of the master index vs what is on the shelves was completed. Duplicates have been removed and we are sitting around…
The SCGO Science Library
(not our library shelves) After twenty years of knowing it needed to be done, and about 3 months of doing, and about 2 days of intensive time dedicated to it,…
Comet C/2022 E3 (ztf)
I think I am behind the lot of you, in that last night was my first look at Comet C/2022 E3 (ztf). Kim was also out using the 20cm dobsonian…
Jupiter 2023Feb13
Jupiter was low (airmass was 2.55 !!!), seeing was average, transparency was poor. This was the best 10% of 15K frames at 5ms per frame. First time out in a…
winter is coming? winter is here!
And every year we have told ourselves we will complete the Library Project. For ten or more years now! But this winter, we have started. We have even completed some…
Jupiter 20230107
The first imaging session of the 2023 season! It’s actually been almost 4 weeks since the last one of 2022… cloud cloud cloud. So, this is Jupiter, the best of…
2023 arrives with cloud
Welcome to 2023, the year that is one older than the last. 2022 ended with a 2 or 3 day blizzard (we lost track inside the house). and now, in…