Parking Issues
2011 Sometime you get the parking space and sometimes the parking space gets you. This is in “downtown” Yarker on Sunday afternoon where this vehicle ended up stuck on the…
Do you know what kind of tree this is?
Here are closeups of the flowers, leaves and trunk From the five petal white flower a tentative ID is Gray Dogwood. We’ll need some better images of the leaf though.
Wet & cold spring
And we still haven’t planted most of the garden yet. It has been wet, cold and cloudy. It looks like we may be 4 weeks later than last year already.…
radiojove skypipe issues
So, we continued to get strange error messages from the radiojove skypipe installation and thought that it was network file related. We switched skypipe over to save data locally to…
radio skypipe problems
The new radiojove radio telescope has been up and running for a few days now. Data is coming in but there is a troubling side effect. The Radio Skypipe II…
Radio Jove operational
Our Radio Jove Radio telescope is up and operational. We assembled the final bits of the system on Friday April 29th, just after the Royal Wedding. It involved accurately measuring…
slow spring
The temperatures have been cool… very cool… so cool that a lot of our plants are behind already and getting farther back. Temperatures remain well below average and the little…
Radio Jove receiver assembly
We did it. After 2? 3? years of having other things happening in life get in the way, we assembled the Radio Jove RJ1.1 Receiver Kit, a 20.1MHz radio receiver.…
New Dew Heaters
Back last fall I was fortunate enough to win a $50 gift certificate from Kendrick Astro Instruments in Toronto at the Fall’N’Stars Star Party 2010. I had won one in…
Food Bank powerpoint
A short presentation about the local Kingston Food Bank: http://starlightcascade.ca/mission_in_partners_food_bank-kingstons_helpful.ppt
Tech talk for wednesday
The day or two after? the allsky camera system captured a great big fireball in the sky it failed to show any images tuesday morning. We use VNC to remote…
Allsky event 2011-04-10 00:48
Was anyone observing outside after midnight early Sunday morning? The reason I ask is that our allsky camera caught an anomaly, that if it were a meteor, was spectacular. Below…
spare parts & spring cleaning
After 30 odd years of working with computers, one finds oneself with a large collection of “spare parts”. It is amazing that every box I open up seems to have…