Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
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…
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…
Three nights in a row now we have had somewhat clear skies, temperatures above 0C and no snow falling from the sky. The image above is of Jupiter from Wednesday…
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…
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…
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 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…
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.…
This is a 6 year old HP dv6500 laptop. It’s fan makes the most irritating noise one can imagine. So today, we took 2 hours to take it apart and…
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre met last night, Thursday 2014 March 13th in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen’s University. Our Guest Speaker: Dr. John Percy…
It’s been a fairly quiet season here at SCGO. But the thaw is coming, the snow and ice are going and soon we will be able to be back outside…
Book Review: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield Wow. What a read. Received this back in 2013 December and took my time going through it, finishing…
Greetings partially clear skies! For the first time in 5 or 6 months (2013 September?) The skies were clear enough to set up on the observing deck! The Kingston Astronomy…
Seedy Saturday Kingston was held today, Saturday 2014 March 08, at this hall. This was the 2nd? or 3rd? year at this location. In the past it was held in…
Again, my annual plea to all, to stop this huge waste of time and energy, that continues on due to plain old bureaucracy and complacency. Cons: – labour involved in…