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…
allsky ghost mouse
We finally found a macro recording mouse program that allowed us to record the mouse strokes and clicks required to click on the Connect button in CCDOps, click on the…
stone mills local government oxymoron?
We had the opportunity to learn more about recent history in our Township of Stone Mills…. and several hours worth of searching the internet has failed to produce any more…
garlic scape harvest
Kim started harvesting garlic scapes a couple of days ago and so far they are a big hit with some of the folks at work who tried them out with…
allsky mpeg fails
Looks like the upgrade to Linux Fedora 11 broke something… the image magick conversion process of *.jpg into today.mpeg has been failing since the upgrade. Will have to track that…
another fedora11 upgrade
From the last post, more fedora 11 upgrades have been performed with the same results as below… Failure to find the Master Boot Record and start up the OS. A…
The world of software
Software is always changing.. always upgrading.. and today is no difference. WordPress, the engine that drives this blog, was updated this morning to v2.8 In other news, Linux Fedora 11…
Last big IYA event until the fall
Last night was our last big event of the International Year of Astronomy until the fall. It was a Public Lecture at BioSciences Complex Room 1101 Queens University with Prof.…
Cancer Society Relay for Life
Friday June 5th, 2009 was our 4th appearance at the Cancer Society Relay for Life event, this year at the Royal Military College Parade Ground. Kim & I arrived on…