seti@home update update
Yay! After first joining the effort on April 12, 1999, 1:58 pm Over 13 years now dedicated to signal processing radio telescope data. We have gained a few more spots…
Great Idea!
New episodes of Dr. Who coming soon (Caturday March 30th, 2013)! Awesome idea…
Spring plans
Spring is almost here… another 20 hours give or take… time to start planning! April – add another coarse of 3.5″x5″x8′ minigarden ties to the raised beds #1, 2, 3,…
Plants in the greenhouse
ok.. maybe not plants but at least seeds. The peppers went in on Saturday March 16th, 2013. Low that night was -13C but the partially insulated greenhouse with small electric…
Newer radioroom computer upgrade
For 6+ years now our primary data logging computer system, called “radioroom” has been running various software to log data coming from SID1, SID2, FMMeteor, and the Weather Station. When…
Upcoming events next week
Monday March 18, 2013 The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre regular meeting, 7pm, Ellis Hall Room 324, Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario. “You Can Almost Touch the Stars”…
Comet C/2011 L4 ( PanSTARRS )
Canon A495, 15sec f5.8 iso 400 at 20:23 EDT Canon A2400IS, 5 sec f4.5 iso 800 at 20:20 EDT Thursday March 14th, 2013 we went out to suddenly clear skies…
New lighting for Kingston City Park
While walking through the park the other day(2013 March 11), I noted that the City of Kingston was in the process of replacing the sidewalk lighting fixtures through the park…
the garlic is safe
The ground is still frozen, some snow left.. and it rained. Rained quite a lot. No place for the water to go but up and into the back yard. But…
greenhouse roof repair
A big construction /repair job had to be completed real soon now as it is time to start the pepper plants from seed. Lack of room and lack of southern…
KAON session
On Saturday March 9th, 2013 we held another Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network Open House and Observing session at the Queen’s University Observatory on Ellis Hall. The talk was on “Heavenly…
Cool Clouds
The approaching herringbone cloud formations coming in just in front of a large low pressure system that will give us a lot of rain. Not a good thing when the…
Shadow of Freedom
This is the latest in the Honor Harrington series of books from David Weber. Muchly anticipated, preordered early and waited and waited for the shipping date and then the delivery…
Tree Care Workshop
March 20 Join certified arborist Eric Weese for a Tree Care Workshop on Wednesday, March 20 2013 from 2 to 4 pm at St. Albans Hall in Odessa, Ontario. Eric…
Long Winter?
It seems to have been a long winter. Do the winters get longer every year strictly because of psychology? Last year this time we were just about out of firewood.…