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…
Mmmm day lillies
Mmmm. day lilly. We went and walked around the grounds this evening and took a lot of pictures. This batch of flowers really stood out nicely.
bunnies and network cables
Just over two years ago, rogue bunnies ate through our ethernet cat 5 cable to the observatory. It was spliced together and wrapped up in the cold of the winter…
Murphy’s Point Provincial Park
We had camped at Murphy’s Point Provincial Park, starting on Friday to help fellow Kingston Centre member Frank Hitchens set up for observing at night. We hung out at the…
KAON Public Observing
Title: KAON Public ObservingLocation: Queens Ellis Hall ObservatoryLink out: Click hereDescription: A short (20 minute) lecture on some astronomical topic followed by tours of the Observatory and weather permitting, telescope…
Public Observing
Title: Public ObservingLocation: Murphys Point Provincial ParkDescription: RASC-KC member Frank Hitchens will give a slide show and telescope viewing for the public (weather permitting).Start Time: 20:30 EDTDate: 2009-07-18
allsky automation success
The allsky camera system, as it stands, is now completely automated. We had success last night with the mouse scripts where before something was always going wrong. A typical night…
UPS
We’ve had a few short power outages thanks to passing lightning storms plus some outages of the main data logging workstation we have that are a little mysterious. After looking…