Venus Jupiter Conjunction
This morning, Monday 2014 August 18th, there was a conjunction of the planets Venus and Jupiter. As they rose over our eastern horizon, they were less than 1/4 of a…
Photo Flashback – last of 1988
This is the last of the good shots from that same morning, out on the ice when Lake Ontario really froze over. The Wolfe Island ferry is in the distance…
Photo Flashback 1988 – redux
This is the same morning as the last sunrise shot shown, that of Queen’s Theological Hall before sunrise posted yesterday. What can I say? It was a great morning for…
photo flashback – 1988 sunrise
After a morning out on Lake Ontario Ice, imaging stars and landscape, on the way home the sunrise twilight lit up this scene very nicely. This is looking east over…
photo flashback – 1988 sunset over Lake Ontario
Another old slide digitized at 4800dpi with digital noise reduction turned on. A nice sunset with a few clouds along the horizon. The Lake is still frozen over and the…
Photo flashback – more 1987
It seems I did a lot of sunset photography in 1987. I think I was working in the photo retail area at the time and a lot of this may…
photo flashback 1987
Another keeper from the 35mm slide scanning project. This is a sunrise from January 1987. It is hard to remember but I think it was from a 3rd floor apartment…
digitizing 35mm slides
A new Epson V700 scanner became available to me and I thought it was high time to start digitizing a *very* large collection of 35mm slides that have been in…
Great tourism weekend
This past weekend was great for weather, with warm to hot temperatures and a good time to play tourist in the local area. Upper Canada Village: (wikipedia) endeavours to depict…
ottawa cfl stadium
Images above: ottawa cfl stadium north side bleachers, 5 yard line, ottawa cfl stadium south side bleachers We followed the Saskatchewan Roughriders to their first game at the new Ottawa…
Garlic harvest
We’ve started to harvest our garlic crop two weeks ago with the earlier varieties. This weekend we pulled up most of the rest, leaving maybe 6 types in the ground…
Public Lecture in astronomy Wed July 23rd 8pm
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 – 20:00 to 22:00 ET Special Event Speaker: Prof Bob Benjamin (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) A Three-Dimensional View of the Milky Way Location: Ellis Hall Auditorium, Queen’s…
SCGObservatory updates
The StarlightCascade Observatory has a carpet on plywood on styrofoam insulation floor. Because it is fairly small, telescopes need to be stored away when not in use, to get out…
pollinators
Pollinating insects have been in the news a lot lately, which is both good and bad news. Good news for the awareness, bad news for the reasons why, that of…