Data flows here
We are starting to get some serious data flowing around here. This is a fairly live and uptodate display of the SolarRadioTelescope, Allskycamera and FMMeteordetection project data: SCO-SRT dataarchive imagearchive…
Fall’N’Stars 2010
The Fall’N’Stars 2010 Star Party has come and gone. We had 22 registrants this year and at least one night of usable weather/clear skies (Friday night). You can find some…
Prep
Always a good idea to prep for a star party… in advance! Case in point, Fall’N’Stars 2010 Last year, you may remember, we took the Centre’s portable power pack (the…
New compost
This is the new composter. Smaller but tougher, easier to access and hopefully we will maintain it better than the last one. We salvaged three wood pallets that were otherwise…
same old compost
Yesterday the old composter came down/was dismantled/ went away. In it’s place was an extension of raised bed for Veg#1 garden. This was 14 minities stacked three high to give…
Netbooks R Us
We purchased a Toshiba Netbook NB305-00F back in June, mostly in preparation for our East Coast Trip. We wanted to have some computing power on the road, needed one for…
Taste of the Danforth
Saturday August 7th, 2010 we did a roadtrip to Toronto, parked, caught the bus and the subway and arrived at the Taste of the Danforth Greek food celebration around 11am.…
July 8th – Day Thirteen
Thursday July 8th, 2010 and we were pretty well done. Too bad we still had over 1000km to go. We blew through Fredericton into Edmunston and looked around for the…
July 7th – Day Twelve
Wednesday we headed out of Digby before most of the locals were even out of bed and headed for the Annapolis Royal gardens. We got there a little early so…
July 6th – Day Eleven
Tuesday we packed up and headed back to Peggy’s Cove, stopping off at the SwissAir Flight 111 memorial. We had followed the crash and had recently seen a documentary on…
July 5th – Day Ten
Monday July 5th we headed down the highway to Halifax. Just across the border into Nova Scotia we ran into this Honey Bee sign. Interesting as colony collapse is widespread…
July 4th – Day Nine
Sunday July 9th was the Annual General Meeting of the RASC and a very short 2nd National Council meeting. In the afternoon there were more talks by David Levy and…
July 3rd – Day Eight
Saturday July 3rd was the real start to the conference- paper sessions. There were two parallel streams in the morning, which means we each missed half of the talks. A…