Jupiter 20241101
This is the 54th imaging session of 2024 in the Serenity Observatory at SCGO. This mornings three imaging runs of Jupiter occurred in nice warm 15C weather but with a…
Jupiter 20241031
After a very long time, and a bad incident with a cable jamming the scope, we are operational again! 1) a newly repaired heater in the telrad finder was installed…
Mars 20241027
Mars is now high enough to be out of the goop and is starting to show some nice detail. This is the best 5% of 15K frames exposed at 1ms…
Jupiter 20241027
First time out in 23 days… just installed the finderscope and camera as well. Works.. just not quite aligned and with no fine alignment ability we are back to shimming…
Garlic Planting 20241019
The 2024 Garlic crop has been planted. Kim did about 8 hours of prep with cracking the bulbs into cloves, planning, marking bags, getting the spreadsheet uptodate and more. I…
Garden Prep 20241017
Another big day of garden prep. This time it was to move 5 wagonloads (totalling just over 1 cubic yard) of compost from the front of the property to the…
Garden Prep 20241016
This is a 90 second timelapse (x10) video of prepping the garden for fall planting of garlic. This is VegBed #2 and it is 4’x24′ or approx 96 ft^2. The…
Comet C/2023 A3 Atlas again 20241014
One of the last images from last night, this one showing another aircraft passing near the comet head. This exposure was 15 seconds, showing more pronounced star trails as well…
Comet C/2023 A3 – atlas 20241014
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a long-period comet, with an 80,000-year orbit around the sun. We were south of Newburgh Monday night, had the first camera image at 19:12 EDT…
Auroral storm 20241010
From the overnight of Thursday/Friday 2024 October 10/11 about 40km northwest of Kingston Ontario. This is from the formerly known as allsky1 camera system, now aimed to the north and…
Aurora 20241006
The SCGO Allsky1 camera has not been allsky for a couple of years now (wide angle lens failure) so it has been repurposed/reaimed at the north to record aurora instead.…
Jupiter 20241003
This imaging session was #2024-50.. the 50th of the year. In 2023 I had a goal of reaching 50 imaging sessions and I reached it. This year I had a…
A new alt-az mount for allsky1
This is the housing and the mount for Allsky1, a raspberry pi and ZWO ASI camera based system. It has not been truly allsky since the last wideangle lens broke…
SCGO Garlic Harvest Data 2024
Well.. these are the final stats. After 4 weeks of hanging to dry in the ventilated garage, the tops and bottoms were cut off, weighed and measured and then stored…
Jupiter 20240920
And another run of Jupiter from this morning from about 04:30-05:30 nice.. no mosquitos! Lots of dew though but the dew heater strap around the corrector and the foam dew…