Has it been hot?
From our weather station stats. This is the 6th heat wave (our definition of more than one day at 30C or above), this summer and the current one will be…
Saturn Titan shdows transit 20250702
Up and out early last Wednesday morning (2025 July 02) around 04:00 edt (008:00 utc) to catch the shadow of the Saturnian moon Titan transitting across the surface of Saturn.…
Garlic Harvest 2025
The 2025 Garlic Harvest has been complete. Records were kept but not yet transcribed as to the total amount. They are now hanging up to dry in a cool, dark,…
The Newer Greenhouse
The Greenhouse is Dead! Long live the Greenhouse! Or words to that affect. So.. the old greenhouse was demolished over the course of 3 weeks, cut up and disposed of…
Old greenhouse falling down, need new greenhouse
Our old (2005 September) greenhouse is falling down. After investigation most of the south side joists were totally rotted out. We did a critical evaluation and came to the decision…
Science Rendezvous 2025
Science Rendezvous Kingston is a FREE, annual science festival for Southeastern Ontario families hosted by Queen’s University. Our 2025 event will take place Saturday, May 10, 10 am – 3…
L&A Horticultural Society Annual Plant Sale
On Saturday May 10th, The Napanee Garden Club aka the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its annual fundraising plant sale. This year again it was held at the Historic…
soil too basic
After over 20 years of gardening onsite, we have finally gotten the soil tested. To our surprise (all right.. a little surprised), our soil has a pH over 7.4 to…
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…