2012 to do
I came across a blog today and picked up some interesting ideas … such as this one… what chores/tasks/fun things do I want to accomplish by the end of this…
Last Full Day of Summer
Friday September 21st, 2012 is the last full day of summer in the northern hemisphere. A good day to reflect on how good the summer was, how short the summer…
Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society meeting
The first of the fall season meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society was Wednesday evening September 19th, 2012. We met at 7pm at the Napanee Firehall Training Room…
Newer CHDK firmware does 1024 seconds!
We’ve talked a lot about the CHDK software available for Canon Powershot series cameras. We took the old Canon A540 with the new software to Fall’N’Stars and did three sets…
Observing Tables
We built this portable observing table 12? years back and it has been working wonderfully. Now we find ourselves needing a 2nd one so we had to look closely at…
Fall’N’Stars in Review
FallNStars is a star party held annually and jointly with the RASC Belleville Centre and Kingston Centre. We switch leads each year to share the work and responsibility. 2012 was…
RASC-Kingston Centre season start
The first meeting of the season for The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre, was held Monday evening September 17th, 2012 from 7-9pm in Ellis Hall Room 324…
Fall’N’Stars 2012
This was our 13th annual Fall’N’Stars Star Party (including the inaugural DSNOS). We’ve been at the Boy Scout Camp Sagonaska for 12 years now. The Event started on Friday September…
Flashback: 2009 August
2012 I was just trying to remember that route we drove back in 2009 August, from home, out west across the top of the US and back home through Canada.…
Tornado < 15km away
Scary.. and we didn’t even know it. On Saturday September 8th, 2012 around 10:00 Edt, a tornado touched down just west of Odessa, about 10 minutes south of us in…
KAON Report Saturday September 8th 2012
Last night was the first Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) of the new season. It is the last running in the summer hours of 9-10:30pm and the October 13th open…
CHDK strikes again
2012sept09 CHDK is a firmware enhancement that operates on a number of Canon Cameras. In particular our older A540 model is one of those and in the last few years…
Nice meteor last night!
I was outside taking some images with our old Canon Powershot A540 camera on a tripod, testing out its new CHDK software, and saw a wonderfully slow, bright, yellow/orange meteor…
Ginger the cat passes on
From the Kingston Humane Society in 1994 July, Ginger and her sister Tasha were wonderful companions for many years. Tasha left after 13 years, Ginger after 18.
How to build an observatory – part2
Project steps in approximate order needed to complete by end of August 2012 xxx make that September 8th, 2012. Life gets in the way of hobbies… always has always will.…