Growing Days
A followup of non frost growing days using the “light frost dates” , ie actual growing days where the temperature is always above freezing: 2003 = 172 days = 24…
Frost days
At a recent meeting of our local Seed Savers group, we talked a little about the various climate types across the area. In an effort to visualize this, ewe have…
allsky laptop2
The original 7 year old laptop suffered a complete hard drive failure some days back and we have just acquired another, slightly newer laptop, only 6 years old :).. hmm…
Supernova!
Congratulations to Kathryn Gray on her discovery of Supernovae SN2010lt in UGC 3378 (imaged on December 31, 2010 and discovered on January 2, 2011 and confirmed on IAU Electronic Telegram…
outdoor laptop
There seems to be a fine line of what exactly you can do with a laptop in the outdoors in the winter. The replacement allsky computer was outside the first…
the story of moving an imaging system
Tuesday night we spent about 3 hours transferring the allsky camera workstation setup from a desktop machine to an old laptop machine. One reason was that a desktop machine was…
Video catch up
We had several days off over the holidays (2010-2011) and managed to catch up on a lot of video, including: Stargate Atlantis, all five seasons of it. Not a bad…
Allsky down for upgrades
The allsky camera workstation has been removed from service and a new replacement system is being setup using a laptop. The old workstation was an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ running…
Logitech HD C270 webcam
This webcam is our latest (2010 Dec 10) acquisition and is nice in its combined audio and video in one usb package. The resolution comes up as 1280×720 and looks…
national farmers union
The National Farmers Union Local 316 held their annual general meeting Thursday evening in Sydenham. Not being full fledged farmers, we hold associate member status. It helps us keep in…
L&A Hort holiday potluck dinner
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society held their annual pot luck dinner for December and a good time was had by all. Especially for all of those who snagged door…
roboscope moves
The RASC-KC roboscope project has been in the works for a few years and has run into technical stumbling blocks too numerous to list. So we have dismantled the telescope,…
Our entries
Our entries in the Shoot the Stars Contest were all taken with a consumer Canon Powershot A540 sitting on a tripod just outside Yarker Ontario. It was using the modified…