Gardening with Ed Lawrence
Last Thursday March 12th, we attended a lecture by Ed Lawrence, a master gardener with a regular call-in program on CBC Radio. Maybe 30-35 minutes of the time was spent…
Comet Lulin
2009 We were up very early this morning taking our last look at Comet Lulin for a couple of days… snow on the way… Here is a 15 second exposure…
New scope on display
This is our new Meade DS90 refractor on display at the last months Public Observing Session. The finder battery died pretty quick so we are waiting to replace that before…
Busy weekend
2009 We look so forward to weekends to escape the mind numbing stressful workplace… and then are so busy trying to do some of the items we want to do…
ground hog day + 1
A lot of little catch up items .. groundhog day was yesterday and with groundhogs only at 39% with their predictions, at least the big 3 all agreed on seeing…
IYA Kickoff1
On the evening of Friday January 9th, 2009 the RASC-Kingston Centre held an International Year of Astronomy kickoff lecture in Stirling Hall. The very next night we held a public…
BSG returns tonight!
I don’t know about you, but we are going to settle down in front of a large warm fire, with a nice warm pizza with a lot of nice warm…
happy new year
1st day of a new year, start it out with observing in the -18C cold! This is an image of the 5.44 day old moon, 1/160 sec through Starbuck, our…
Big Solar
The great Stone Mills Solar Project is one step closer to reality. While driving by the site this past weekend we came across the 2nd and 3rd signs of progress.…
Twas a stormy Xmas Eve
Phew… We had some kind of windstorm blow through here Christmas Eve. It turned out that it sounded worse than it really was. The weather station showed gusts up to…