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…
Spring Prep
Spring is coming… this Sunday March 20th, 2011 at 19:21 EDT to be exact. And that has caused us to start thinking about gardens. So far the plans are pretty…
page hit counter
We added a page hit counter down the right hand column near the bottom (just above the moon phase widget) on March 1st, 2011. The numbers seem to be increasing…
Discovery/ISS Pass#2
The Space Shuttle Discovery and the international Space Station on the evening of Tuesday March 8th on a low 30 degree pass in the west, southwest and south. All images…
Discovery/ISS Pass
While waiting for the Space Shuttle and ISS to pass over, we saw this awesome display of the crescent moon and Jupiter low in the western skies: The Space Shuttle…
Kingston Gardening Festival
We stopped in at the Kingston Gardening Festival Friday after work. It was at the same location as last year, the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour. Nice to see the first garden…
ISS Passes upcoming
The space shuttle discovery is currently docked with the International Space Station and has been passing overhead our area for the last few days. Coming up soon will be a…
COG Eco Farm Day 2011
The Canadian Organic Growers held their Annual Eco Farm Day in Cornwall this past weekend and we attended with a few others from the Kingston and Roblin areas. It was…
The Bath Garden Club
We were able to attend a meeting of the Bath Garden Club Monday Feb 21st as it was a holiday and they always meeting in the afternoon 🙁 What struck…
Welcome to March
Kim was up before Sunrise and took this image of the crescent Moon and Venus in the south east, just over Kingston. It was gorgeous. This newer camera is definitely…
Time of Use Power
We were notified that we are joining the throngs of Ontario Hydro One Time of Use power users next month. It has been a long time coming but they appear…