Site upgrade
WordPress was upgraded again this morning and we also moved it to the forefront of the site, moving many of the pages of interest to the “quicklinks” section in the…
double rainbow
One cloudy rainy day in October the sun peaked out just enough to throw up this gorgeous double rainbow over the house on some dark clouds. Photography does not do…
Garlic goes in
Monday October 12th, 2009 and the garlic goes in the ground. We prepped the raised beds #2 (3’x28’x12″=84ft^2) and #3 (4’x16’x12″=64ft^2) by putting in 7 bags of sheep manure a…
concam image processing
We spent a couple of hours last night researching how to remove the hot pixels from our ST237A allsky camera. These are the bright spots on an image that are…
Fall’N’Stars
Fall’N’Stars 2009 is almost here! The southeastern ontario star party now in its 10th year (2000-2009), even though the first year 2000 it was called DSNOS! Sounds Klingon? What did…
KAON on the Lake
KAON (Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network) Public Observing Session. *SPECIAL DATE* Saturday September 19th 6:30-11:00pm EDT Lake Ontario Park King Street West of Portsmouth Avenue in Kingston Ontario. (Sunset 19:09 EDT)…
A stop in Vulcan Alberta
We stopped back in at Vulcan Alberta to see how it had changed since the last visit in 1996. Boy has it changed! A Star Trek visitors centre and a…
T-rex in Saskatchewan
On the way to the Summer Saskatchewan Star Party we stopped off in Eastend Sask to visit Scotty the T-rex and the T-rex Centre. Lizard Lips And this would be…
midwest attractions
Driving out in the American midwest anytime to see things like Badlands National Park in South Dakota? Or within a couple of hours to see this famous place from the…
2nd clear night this week!
2009 A 2nd night of observing in a single week, after months of little or none at all. We took Sky Quality Meter readings with both our own standard version…
Clear Weather at last
We’ve been away for a while and did not get a chance to observe at all during that time. Back home and this past Monday night August 24th was clear…
A Visit to Wolfe Island
We haven’t been over to Wolfe Island in months, but finally had the opportunity earlier this week. Our primary reason was to go and visit some gardens.. some very nice…
allsky camera settles down
the saga of the allsky cam continues… after replacing a network switch, resplicing some cat 5 cables , checking and rechecking, we kept getting intermittent failures on the network. After…