new summer construction project idea
You may have seen that we are big Doctor Who fans… and I like to build things… here is the best of both worlds: We wonder if it is refridgerated?
L&A Horticultural Society Meeting
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (based out of Napanee Ontario Canada) met Wednesday Night, February 20th, 2013 at 7pm at the Napanee Firehall Community Room. One of the innovations,…
New code to review allsky2 camera images
We completed new code to process all of the nights imagery from the allsky2 camera system. Not only does it run in the current “last nights run” but also can…
12 hours past the russian meteor
It’s been a good 12 hours since the world has seen the nearest near-miss since Tunguska in 1908. A very large meteor on the order of 15 metres and maybe…
Leek moth notes
Leek moth has been a pest for a few years now and we have been looking at ways to reduce their impact on our leeks, onion and garlic crops. We…
Lasts nights allsky2 summary
The new code written to process the nights images from the allsky2 camera system has worked and the result of last night appears here: This is a compilation of 27…
Doctor Who countdown
Fans of Every Thing Doctor Who There are 45 days until the next episode of Doctor Who. That would be Saturday March 30th, 2013 for those with calendars 🙂 The…
More Imagemagick tricks
I am attempting to learn how to stack or combine or layer multiple images ontop of each other. Specifically to take all of the images of meteors taken throughout the…
Planning for spring… irrigation
We are looking at adding in better irrigation systems in our various raised garden/veg beds. In the past we have tried a few, including lee valley system tubing and sprayers,…
Bath Garden Club 2013
The Bath (Ontario) Garden Club has recently become affiliated with the Ontario Horticultural Society. They are still working on their website, so in the meantime: Next Meeting Date: February 18,…
Reminder – Canada Blooms! (2013)
Canada Blooms 2013 is coming and it is time to start thinking about whether or not to make the trek into the dreaded Toronto Traffic. Some years ago we took…
blizzard aftereffects
This is the northeast wall of the roll off roof observatory. It gets the worst of the nor’easter storms and blizzards. Unfortunately the sheer force of the driving wind tends…
Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON)
The Kingston Astronomy Outeach Network (KAON) held an open house at Queen’s University Observatory on Saturday 2013 February 09 starting at 7:30pm EST. Nathalie Ouellette, the observatory coordinator was there…
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 .…