The Lunar X
We got home late but not too late to still observe and image the Lunar X feature on the moon. The event peaked around 20:00 local but was still visible…
L&A HortSoc meeting
Last night (Wednesday April 17th, 2013) the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its regular monthly meeting to the biggest turnout of the year… 36 people! Our guest speaker helped…
accurate time
Astronomers watch the mostly static skies. Once in awhile, something moves. Sometimes things move fast.. very fast. At those times it is very useful to know what time it is.…
Great.. Big… Sea!
Great Big Sea.. Newfoundland’s premier band.. Eastern Canada’s premiere band… Canada’s premier band? Could be. We certainly think so. (Well at least in the top three or four 🙂 They…
dead dlink
Yesterday (Wednesday April 10th, 2013), we had some strange happenings with a couple of computers that host the weather station, SID2 and ALLSKY2. They were popping on and off the…
upcoming occultation
from wikipedia.org An occultation occurs when an apparently larger body passes in front of an apparently smaller one. A transit occurs when an apparently smaller body passes in front of…
amazon
Yay! Amazon has shipped another book on…. potatos? hmm. not exactly what we were expecting but we will take it.. waitaminute… here’s another email… Another book has shipped! Now this…
meade lx200gps mods
We are working on making the RASC-KC’s 20cm LX200GPS accessible remotely to members of the Centre. One of the many issues was a digital camera. They are expensive and all…
Software update day
It’s a nice quiet day at home with all of the cats asleep and time to do some software updates. Stellarium 0.12 from 0.11.4 – an astronomy planetarium software program,…
another fedora upgrade experience
Yesterdays linux fedora 16 to 17 upgrade did not complete so I didn’t get a chance to try out the next phase of the process, fedora 17 to 18, on…
Earth Hour 2013
Last night, Saturday March 23rd, 2013 was Earth Hour, from 20:30-21:30 EDT. Starting about 10 minutes earlier, we went around shutting off non-essential power, including all lights inside. We headed…
SID1 status
The old Sudden Ionsopheric Disturbance system 1 (SID1) does not seem to have survived the transition from the old computer running windows NT2000 and having a physical COM1 port, to…
Linux Fedora 16 upgrade fail
Fedora 16 linux installation I have a couple of old linux fedora 16 servers that are now longer supported, and do not get updates any longer. They must be upgraded…
Bond… James Bond
We’ve started rewatching the entire James Bond Movie series in the last few weeks. So far we’ve done Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963) and most recently Goldfinger…