wildview
We picked up an outdoor wildview trail camera, in an effort to see exactly how big the problem of deer wandering through the yard and eating everything out of the…
GPS Receiver BU-353
One of the christmas (2011) gifts was a USB GPS receiver, the BU353. As it turns out, for our intended uses of using it strictly as an accurate source of…
allsky cleaning
We had time to inspect the allsky camera dome for the first time since its renovation a month ago. Things are looking very good. The inside platform is completely dry,…
laptop failure
The laptop computer running the radiojove project failed on Friday the 16th of December. Specifically the old 30gb IDE hard drive now makes either no noise or a whole lotta…
Welcome Dora and Payton
Welcome to Dora and Payton! They came out of the Napanee SPCA branch on Saturday.
Fireball! 2011 Dec 12th, 18:04 EST
We were contacted by local media this afternoon about a possible fireball Monday evening. But with no information about time, location, etc it could have been any of a dozen…
red lithograph saves night vision
The white light image on the left is the way our netbook used to look like outside when we were running the imaging telescope at night. The light on the…
allsky camera modifications
The allsky camera system has been around in its current configuration for some years now, and we’ve been meaning to renovate it for some time now. As seen in this…
waupoos winery
It’s been a few years since we were last at the Waupoos winery down in Prince Edward County. We had been visiting every year, sometimes twice, since 2001. But times…
allsky camera and fall issues
We noticed last night that the allsky camera dome was fuzzy and foggy. Going outside we found the inside of the dome condensing and freezing in places. The 24vdc heaters…
software updates
just a short note to point out that a couple of pieces of software that we use have been updated recently. The first is the BOINC, moving up to v6.12.34…
Upcoming gardening events
Winter is approaching so it is natural for gardeners and growers to start looking through seed catalogs and thinking about the spring. NFU (National Farmers Union) NFU NEW FARM PROJECT…
Linux Fedora 16 upgrade complete
The series of updates to the linux fedora servers completed on Saturday November 19th, 2011. There were a few small issues but they seem to have been resolved for the…
Jupiter anon
Two relatively clear nights in the last week with a lot of cloud, so outside to setup the Lx200gps and do some planetary imaging with the Meade LPI imager. Jupiter…