Jupiter 20251029
And another “winter is coming” cold morning… a whole -1C !! 15 runs from 0918-1016 UTC of Jupiter.. no great red spot seeing: poor (image was bouncing around a lot)…
Jupiter 20251026
A big reminder that 04:00 is much better than 05:00 because the cloud rolled in at 05:00 edt this morning. Ick! This was the best of 19 imaging runs, using…
woohoo Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon
We hit the back yard last night at 19:00edt and spent the next hour imaging and observing Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon, Comet C/2025 R2 Swan and I think she got…
Jupiter 20251019
Last nights forecast for this morning showed me 100% high cloud. High cloud is sometimes totally transparent, sometimes totally opaque At 05:00 edt this morning it was a mixture of…
Jupiter 20251017
Another early morning… around 04:30 EDT.. although in hindsight it should have been 03:30 or 04:00… because cloud rolled in before 05:00 edt The first imaging run was the best…
Jupiter 20251016
And this was the best of 22 runs of imaging Jupiter early this morning. Each run was 180 seconds using an exposure around 3.6ms, a frame rate of 150+ fps…
weather and allsky1 are back
Partial data functionality has been restored. The hourly weather and nightly hourly allsky1 image should now be working.
New Hosting Site 20251009
We have switch hosting providers and the daily updates that normally automatically occur have been suspended until we get things configured again. So items like weather, allsky1 and allsky2, etc…
tomato harvest 2025 was pretty darn good
Just a *small* representation of the huge harvest from our 32 heirloom tomato plants this year. Think in your mind, *triple* at least this amount.
Saturn 20251006
A very long night and into the morning for the last Titan shadow transit of Saturn for another 13+? years. It worked! We Got One! The transparency was poor with…
SCGO allsky2 fireball 20250910 04:31:30 UTC
A really really nice fireball overnight. attached is the nightly summary image, the event image and if not too big, the 8 second video 20250910 04:31:30 UTC = 00:31:30 EDT…
Its BLT season!
The first Bacon Lettuce Tomato Sandwich of the season… and the first of about 20… take advantage of it while you can! This was a Kellogg’s Breakfast heirloom tomato sliced…
who puts in an OSB floor?
We noted over the last year that a portion of the popup trailer floor was soft. So we opened it up to discover that instead of plywood, orient strand board…
Shed venting project
Sheds with a metal roof tend to be cooler than one with shingles.. but still sometimes too warm. So we added two 4″ fans powered by a small 30w solar…