April Showers? May Showers!
Some random notes about May: * peas are starting to come up in raised veg bed #2 with the new pea stands * the grass went 3 shades more of…
Rogers. hmmpph.
Earlier this year, Rogers Communication notified the Township of Stone Mills council that Rogers would be putting up a 106 metre tall guyed cell tower. About 400 metres away from…
peas and lettuce
It’s April, it’s not freezing as much as it did, and the ground has thawed. Yesterday 300kg of composted sheep manure stopped by and we started putting it into the…
Ontario – coal free! since 2014 April 15th
Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in North America to fully eliminate coal as a source of electricity generation. The Thunder Bay Generating Station, Ontario’s final remaining coal-fired facility, has…
L&A Hort club met last night
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club), met on Wednesday 2014 April 16th at the Napanee Fire Hall community/training room. The guest speaker was member Judy Bullock who…
Jupiter with Orion Starshoot camera
This is the last clear night for some time now… Friday April 11th, 2014 with Jupiter well past zenith, using the 20cm LX200GPS and a x2.5 barlow giving an f25…
Wednesday: Jupiter and Mars
Jupiter Another nice night (Wednesday 2014 April 09) with relatively warm air, relatively clear skies to image under. We did the last benchmark runs with the Olivon (USB 1.1) camera…
The Grassroots Growers of Tamworth/Erinsville proudly present ‘SpindleTree Gardens: A Story in Pictures
Susan and Tom give a great talk. We last heard them 3 years? ago at a L&AHort meeting. SpindleTree Gardens: A Story in Pictures Tuesday April 22nd, 7 pm Tamworth…
Jupiter, night #4
Sunday 2014 April 07 was another clear night, so out I went to do another imaging run of Jupiter, hopefully the last on the 20cm with the Olivon camera. Focusing…
L&A Hort met 2014 March 19th
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club), met on Wednesday 2014 March 19th at the Napanee Fire Hall community/training room. The guest speaker was all about tools and…
SID2 recommissioning
The Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance 2 system was completely rebuilt from the ground up. A reused computer (Windows 7, Intel atom 1.6GHZ processor, 2GB ddr2 RAM) was put together and install…
St. Thomas Fireball
By now you may have heard about the St. Thomas (Ontario) Fireball on Tuesday 2014 March 18th at 10:24pm. http://meteor.uwo.ca/research/fireball/events/st_thomas/overview.html Seven all-sky cameras of Western’s Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN)…
meteors in the news
Meteors have been in the news recently, so I have added the last two “spectacular” meteors that the allsky2 camera system have seen recently. On Monday 2014 March 17 06:39:00…
Regulus occultation prep
This is a short 10 second video of Jupiter and its four Galilean moons using the system we hope to capture the occultation of Regulus Thursday morning around 02:06 EDT.…