The Kingston Astronomy Club met
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre met last night, Thursday 2014 February 13th in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen’s University. We finally returned to our regular…
Two nice Meteors 2014 Feb 06
We have finally had a couple of really nice meteors on the night of Wed/Thur Feb 5/6 2014 The first one at 01:27:11 UT or 20:27:11 EST was a very…
Babylon 5 – a classic
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5 Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski. The pilot episode was broadcast on February 22, 1993 in the…
waning moon
The waning crescent moon taken early this morning (2014 January 28) from the back deck with the Canon ELPH120 on a tripod, 3 sec exposure time, f6.9, ISO 1600 Focusing…
live entertainment
One morning at the office window, two of the cats were glued to the window.. even though it was -25C outside and the windows was very cold. This is what…
Castle
From 2013 December 23rd: We’ve recently started watching the Crime drama series Castle, starring Nathan Fillion, whom we first met in the SF series Firefly. We’ve been binge watching and…
Cold cold and more cold
Today is Thursday January 23rd, 2014 It was -30C this morning The previous three days have also been very very cold: Monday Jan 20: -26C Tuesday Jan 21: -35C Wednesday…
Newburgh Canal Bash Saturday January 25th
Newburgh Canal Bash Saturday January 25th, 2014 Enjoy a great day of winter fun at the 21st annual Newburgh Canal Bash! The festivities begin at 8 am with a pancake…
Ted Maczka – the fish lake garlic man
Ted Maczka, is the (Prince Edward) County’s legendary Garlic Man. He’s on a mission is to make Canada self-sufficient in garlic. He’s been called “the Johnny Appleseed of Garlic” for…
Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society meeting
Last night (Wednesday January 15th, 2014) the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club) held its first Regular Meeting of 2014. 27 people were present to hear the guest…
Occultation of Regulus by 163 Erigone – 2014 March 20
General info from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/163_Erigone) On March 20, 2014, Erigone is expected to occult the first-magnitude star Regulus. This event will be visible along a path about 40 miles wide…
Laptop upgrade
A few month back we successfully replaced a toshiba laptop 2.5″ spinning hard drive with a 120GB SSD (solid state Drive). It was a simple single primary NTFS partition that…
Somewhat Clear Skies but no aurora
It has been cloudy or very cold for too many weeks now. We came home from an astronomy meeting and it was not that cold (-8C) and not that windy…
2013 departs
The end of 2013 came and went with one of our traditional bonfires and fireworks in the bitter cold. We did not last long with the cold and the wind…
Canon A2400IS bites the dust
This was our only digital camera, a Canon A2400IS. We got it in September of 2012 and up until 2 months ago, have been ecstatic about it. It was high…