Geminid Meteor Shower 2022
One of the best performances of a meteor show in years! Mostly because there were no clouds! For the night of Monday/Tuesday 2022 December 12/13, 39 events were recorded on…
Mars 2022 Dec 09
It looks like both of us imaged Mars at very near the same time. I did x36 four minute imaging runs from 21:37 to 00:02 EST. exposure was 0.2ms !…
Jupiter 2022 Dec 09
The best of Jupiter on Friday evening, just after it went past due south az=180 degrees. The best 5% of the run with 30K frames… I think I will reprocess…
RadioJove functions!
After many weeks of issues with the RadioJove v1 system, we finally got it operational again a few days ago. Some of the recording levels seemed a little low but…
asteroid 2022 WJ1 Fireball 2022nov19 082652UTC
As you may have heard, a newly discovered 1m asteroid crashed into the atmosphere mere hours after discovery. The UWO Allskycamera network captured it and was able to provide a…
Linux Fedora 36 to 37 upgrades inplace
Linux Fedora 37 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…
Napanee Community Garden 2022
This was the 13th year of the Napanee Community Garden for the Local Food Bank. This is a small group of volunteers who plan, prepare, plant, weed, water, and harvest…
Jupiter 2022Nov02
Awesome! A Double Shadow Transit of Jupiter’s moons Wednesday evening. Below is an animated GIF of approx 45 runs of 180 seconds each, with no delay between each. Each was…
Jupiter 2022nov01
An awesome evening yesterday… If I had only know there would be moon shadows I would have stayed out! These are two still images showing the moon Io moving left…
More collimation video
Still trying to understand the collimation status of the Vixen VC200L telescope. This is a 30 second video of being outside of the focus point Air currents can be seen…
Got collimation?
Over the last few months we do not seem to be getting the performance out of our 20cm Vixen telescope. Everything has been cleaned, the 90 degree diagonal has been…
Garlic Planting 2022
And it is DONE! The SCGO Garlic Planting of 2022. It went quicker and easier than past years, thanks to a lot of prep work up front. cracking the bulbs…
Local seeing is not good
Tuesday evening around 20:00 local I opened up the observatory with the intent to do an optical collimation and some imaging of Saturn and Jupiter. It was hazy, The near…
20 years of frost
This is the data from our weather station located current in our vegetable beds out back. The station is approx 2m above ground in a grassy/earthen area, well area from…
Jupiter 20220930
This is the first image of Jupiter since the 2022 opposition (4 days past opposition). Altitude was at max , seeing and transparency were average, but the focus still was…