How big is Jupiter?
This is an image of Jupiter taken on 2013 Jan 10th around 18:03 EST. According to Stellarium v0.11.4, Jupiter appeared to be 45.3 arc seconds large at this time .…
L&A Hort AGM
The original post was lost in the system crash of a week or two ago… The data backups went back to only January 1st so we lost a few blog…
Amazing difference in one day
Pretty amazing what one day can do. On the right is 2013 January 29, about -9 deg C. On the left is 2013 January 30, about +13 deg C. Accompanied…
Welcome to February
This is our greenhouse. Notice how snow covered it is. THere hasn’t been enough sunlight coming into the south facing front wall to heat up the inside to melt the…
A good weekend
Things are coming along nicely. Radiojove has been showing excellent data since we turned off and removed the desktop allsky1 computer system. It was radiating Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) like…
Dr. Who up to date
Wow… a couple of marathon sessions and we have finished off the current incarnation of the Doctor Who BBC TV series. Season 6 went by pretty fast and then Season…
2013
Waking up this morning to the news of the United States reaching a deal to add/increase taxes on their fiscal situation but not doing a single thing to cut spending.…
Doctor Who Season 5
Just finished up with Doctor Who (2005) Season5 last night and it was a doozy. We had actually seen the last 2 or 3 episodes when they came out live…
Cell phone batteries
To those of you who have had laptops, you know that the batteries never last as long as they should, as you think, or as promised. We are thinking the…
Allsky2 replaced
Over the last couple of months, the allsky2 camera dome has been condensing on the inside. We’ve tried all kinds of things to eliminate or reduce it but nothing has…
HSGeo
Our newly renamed Heirloom Seed Growers (of Eastern Ontario) aka HSGeo met this past weekend in more of a social setting and with an eye to wrapping up the past…
Post The Hobbit
We bought tickets in advance, had dinner in town and arrived at the theatre 35 minutes before showtime. No lineups. Hmmm.. Each of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy had…
Geminid Meteor Shower 2012 Day 2
The SCO Allsky2 camera/UWO camera10 captured 113 events last night (Dec 13/14, 2012) Of those 9 were false positives (a bit of condensation inside the dome and passing car headlights)……
interesting items
I started reading Tom Clancy way back when “The Hunt for Red October” was released in 1984. The next few books in time tailored nicely into my military interests of…