Drip Irrigation for the Veg Garden
Drip Irrigation at Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories Background Decades ago we started out first raised bed at our new home. We watered by hand from a hose from our…
Aurora 20250321
Some decent aurora showed last evening from about 21:00 edt to 01:00 this morning. An allnight video is here: The startrail is here: and the keogram here: and the best…
Napanee Community Garden 2024
This was the 15th year (2010-2024) of the Napanee Community Garden for the Local Food Bank. This is a small group of volunteers who plan, prepare, plant, weed, water, and…
Firecapture ROI and cutouts
Lucky imaging, Firecapture, ROI and cutouts Planetary Imaging took a Quantum Leap with the advent of Lucky Imaging and digital cameras. Lucky imaging is the process of taking thousands of…
Frozen soil 20250320
Today we went out on the first day of Spring, the Equinox, and measured each vegbed to see how much of the soil had thawed. Vegbed1, raised, garden ties 2″…
Total Lunar Eclipse 20250314
This is the camera setup we used last night for the total lunar eclipse. Skywatcher Star Adventurer on a tripod Ball joint head canon T7i DSLR with a 100-300mm zoom…
Jupiter 20250311
This is the best image of the run of imaging of Jupiter Tuesday evening. The highlight of the night was a double moon shadow transit, Europa first and smallest and…
Mars 20250311
Whilst waiting for the double moon shadow transit on Jupiter Tuesday evening, I did a few runs of Mars imaging. The wind was brutal.. gusting and then not. It did…
Jupiter Impact Detection Project
Jupiter Impact Detection Besides imaging Jupiter for the outofthisworldlisness of Jupiter, its moons transitting the surface, its moon shadows transitting its surface, the Great Red Spot, bands and belts, and…
Jupiter 20250221
Greetings! Another night that looked promising, what with -7C before 7pm, and skies that looked clear. One hour, 16 imaging runs of Jupiter and a final temp of -15C later…
Live data uploading broke – now working again
The last successful automated data upload to this website failed on 2025jan17. Just today, testing showed that it was functional again. No cause was found.. perhaps just a glitch, perhaps…
Mars 20250124
I must have been already brain frozen last night after two Jupiters (I had actually thought I did many more than that! Go Figure!), I thought to myself.. lets do…
Jupiter 20250124
This evening we went out at -5C thinking it would stay that way and just more than 30 minutes later, we came inside to discover the temp was in fact…
Prepping for gardening in January
We are learning of many new things online, and especially from Country View Acres on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@CountryViewAcres In particular… more and better grow lights for starting seeds. So we picked…
Jupiter 20250109
This was the single best imaging run of 36 runs on a cold evening. The shadow transit is from Io, the top right moon is Ganymede. Io itself is on…