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…
Concam sees something?
The Allsky Concam saw something last night, most likely a low flying aircraft. It appears on two frames, one at 23:19:05 local and the other at 23:22:25 local. The first…
wireless N
We installed a new wireless router today, a Dlink DIR-615. Our older Linksys wrt54g had some issues. When uploading large (100’s Mb) files over wireless, the router would reset, disconnecting…
wordpress upgrade
upgraded to a release candidate for the new and upcoming wordpress. The upgrade went fairly well. The full release came out the next day and the automatic upgrades worked as…
RASC Kingston Centre meeting
The next meeting of the RASC-Kingston Center is coming up this Friday December 12 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in Stirling Hall Theatre A, Bader Lane on Queen’s University Campus. Parking on…
kingstoniya.ca
It’s been a busy few days what with meeting with the local International Year of Astronomy 2009 group, registering a new domain kingstoniya.ca and setting up the initial web presence…
Power outage
We had a 4 hour long power outage this morning at home. Always a surprise to see how great your preparedness is not. 🙂 It is always good in a…
Busy few astro days
It’s been busy for some of the members of the RASC-KC in the last few days. First Hank’s brother scores with good video of the Saskatchewan fireball (spaceweather page). Then…
Newest meteorite addition
Once a year or so the Queen’s University the Geological Museum puts on a sale of sorts as a fundraiser. In the past we kept on missing it, and only…
Days are getting shorter
These days when we get out of work and start heading out through traffic to get out of town, we take a detour along the waterfront of Lake Ontario. Sometimes…
Linux is great!
More years now we have been running various cameras pointed up at the sky, hoping for pretty pictures of clouds but more importantly, pretty pictures of meteors and fireballs. Robert…
Serendipity Rules!
So, I’ve heard that Astronomy is a boring hobby. Nothing ever happens. Yesterday however, put those comments to rest in a trash bin. Yesterday, fellow astrodude Hank had brother Andy…
Ubuntu v8.10
My HP Laptop came with the dreaded and greatly feared MS Vista Operating system on a fairly large drive, 350gb. Attempts to downgrade this to MS XPPro failed due to…