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…
Jupiter 20240916
And for the 2nd 4am getupandoutside call in a row… Jupiter with great altitude at 57 degrees and an airmass of only 1.2 This is the best 5% of 15k…
Jupiter 20240915
Another nice clear morning to get up and out around 04:00.. but did not actually start imaging until 04:40 or so. BUT… the sun is coming up so much later…
Jupiter 20240910
Another early morning imaging session before work. This time a rebuilt styrofoam dew cap went over the heat strap on the front correct plate of the C9.25 SC. It worked!…
Solar film filter storage
Greetings! We have a 9.25″ full aperture baader solar film filter, in a neat aircore mount that just force fits inside the rim of the Celestron C9.25 Schmidt Cassegrain telescope.…
Saturn 20240906
A reminder that Saturn opposition 2024 is tonight/tomorrow and this is a good chance to get your best planetary observing/imaging of the season. At approx 01:00 EDT Sunday, Saturn will…
Jupiter, Io, Io shadow transit 20240906
Again serendipity strikes… outside at 04:00 EDT to imaging Jupiter and continue to commission the Celestron 9.25 with a x1.5 barlow and low! Io is very close to Jupiter and…
Jupiter 20240827
We had the opportunity to try out a new Optical Telescope Assembly the other morning and so were up and about at 04:00 EDT aiming to image Jupiter, even with…
Garlic Harvest dates over the years
The 2023/2024 crop of garlic has been cleaned, weighed, measured and stored away in the cold room. Time to start thinking about the 2045/2025 crop. A summary of when we…