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…
Earth Hour March 26th 2011
Earth Hour ran from 20:30 to 21:30 EDT saturday night and we participated by turning off all lights and a lot of other electrical equipment around the house. We spent…
Globe@night
We participated in the Globe at Night starcount on the evening of Saturday March 26th, 2011 It was a clear cold night with some wind and that made it challenging…
Telescope Repair
The main telescope Kim uses for solar observing is a Bausch & Lomb 4000 Schmidt-Cass. She uses it to make daily (if at all possible) observations of sunspots with a…
weekend notes
GLOBE at Night: encourages citizen-scientists worldwide to record the brightness of the night sky. During 2 weeks of moonless evenings, children and adults match the appearance of a constellation (Leo…
RASC Kingston
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre, had its regular monthly meeting Friday March 11th, 2011 at 7:30pm in Stirling Hall Theatre A, 64 Bader Lane on Queen’s…
Mice in the greenhouse
After sealing the floor better to adding a pile of mouse traps into the greenhouse… the mice are still there. We discovered some of the little plants starting to come…