X1. solarflare 2021 October 28
Region 2887 Start Time UT 15:17; Max 15:35; End 15:48 Offscale of the realtime display… will need to reprocess this to get the peak showing…
Time of use electricity in Ontario
The province of Ontario installed timeofuse power metering some years ago. The current government has given the option of consumers to go back to a flat rate system as well,…
Total Lunar Eclipse 2022May15/16
There was a total lunar eclipse on the evening of Sunday 2022May15th and ran past midnight into May 16th. We had a lot of cloud here that was coming in…
Linux Fedora 35 to 36 upgrades in place
Linux Fedora 36 was released yesterday and already we have upgraded one data backup server, one file server, one dual boot laptop and are midway through another file server. So…
Solar Flare X1.13 2022May03-13:25UTC
This is the SuperSID data from the X1.13 class solar flare that occurred on Tuesday 2022 May 03, peaking at 13:25 UTC (-4=09:25 EDT). This is not too surprising as…
X-1.13 solar flare at 13:47 UTC 2022April30
X1.13 flare at 13:47 UTC You know its a good one when it goes offscale! 🙂 Sun azimuth 107, or 83 deg off due south /15= or about 5.5 hours…
Bright fireball event 2022 April 18 03:37UTC near Lake Simcoe expected to have dropped meteorites
This was captured on the allsky camera system that we host from the University of Western Ontario, SCGO Allsky2, Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN) UWO#10. A bright fireball was observed…
Desktop Computer replacement
In the normal course of events, when replacing a dead computer, is to buy something a little higher end, and then perform a handmedown upgrade sequence so that instead of…
SuperSID and RadioJove
Both our SuperSID and RadioJove radio telescope systems were down the last few days. SuperSID required a lot of going back and reviewing the software from first principles and eventually…
After 20+ years, our first hoophouse
After too many years of inadequate cold frames, we have finally found a design that we liked and could build… a 4’x8′ hoop house. This was based on the design…
1st Observing Session of 2022
This morning at 04:10 I got up (slowly and painfully) and went out to do my first imaging session of 2022, yep… Dec 11th was the last one. Venus, Saturn…
X1.3 solar flare at 17:39 UTC 2022 March 30
There were 17 solar flares yesterday, mostly C Class and a couple of M class… Today was this stupendous but short lived X1.3 class Solar Flare from Active Region AR12975……
Canadian SF
It is rare these days to discover a new author (even if they themselves have been around for some time), and even moreso if they are or were Canadian. From…
Astroberry Testbed
The astroberry 4.04 install image was downloaded (about 4GB, 8GB uncompressed) and successfully installed on a 32GB microsd card. That went into the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and ran! The…
It’s been cold out eh?
Today’s weather station temperature plot. It’s been so cold at times the station data is not received… we think it might be the cold affecting the batteries.. but then why…