Web server hardware upgrade trials
This web site, and others that the server hosts, is scheduled for some new hardware in the near future. In preparation for the switchover, the site may be down for…
KAON Open House Saturday July 14th, 2012
The Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) held an open house, lecture and public observing session on Saturday July 14th, 2012 from 21:00-22:30 EDT at the Queen’s University Ellis Hall Observatory.…
L&AHortSoc and the Napanee Library
Week two at the Napanee Library saw us going around the entire building and collecting a lot of thistles/weeds. That combined with the efforts of other L&A Hort members that…
How we harvest garlic
Garlic harvest came early this year and Kim finished it off Saturday morning. When is garlic reday to harvest? In the Kingston Ontario region, normally around the end of July.…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden work
We dropped by the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden on Thursday July 12th to do some work, mainly weeding and watering. It has been hot and dry with not a…
Weather Summary 2012
hmm good for another table (of weather data from the starlightcascade gardens) month 2012 average temp (day & night) rainfall (mm) january -4.2C 51mm february -2.1C 11mm march 5.6C 47mm…
Garlic Harvest has started
It was a great weekend with highs of 29 and 27 but still fairly dry. We had 2mm of rain early Saturday morning… not even enough to get the ground…
L&AHortSoc and the Napanee Library
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society has taken on the community service job of tending to the gardens at the Napanee Library. We visited the site on Sunday July 1st,…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden work
We dropped by the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden on Thursday June 28th, 2012 and again on Thursday July 5th to do some work, mainly weeding and watering. It has…
Canada Day in Bath Ontario 2012
So we were walking down Main Street in Bath Ontario, around 10:30 am on Sunday July 1st, 2012. And in a quick second we were in the middle of a…
conjunction pleiades, jupiter, venus
On the morning of Sunday 2012 July 01 (Happy Canada Day!) we were up and outside at 04:00 to observe and photograph this conjuntion of the Pleiades star cluster, the…
observatory network recabled
After years of bad, intermittent and in some cases no network access from the observatory at all, we fixed it. The original cat5 cable was laid down almost ten years…
5 weeks and done!
The many flower beds are done. After being mostly left alone for a few years, we tackled them all, pulling grass and weeds and covering in mulch for 5 weeks.…
-8 magnitude Iridium flare
This is what a -8 magnitude Iridium flare looks like (brightest point in the south south east sky). Pretty neat and pretty bright. The brighter they are the shorter duration…
CFL-3 days and counting
Friday June 29th, 2012 is the first game of the regular season for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the worst team in the league last year. Things can only get better, right?…