Saturn 20240708
This is the best of 5 runs of Saturn taken on Monday morning July08… Up and outside at 04:00 EDT was an experience! This was the best 10% of 9300…
Saturn 20240628
Switching from observing and imaging in the evening to the morning now, since that is where all the planets be. This is a session Friday morning starting at 04:00 EDT…
Luna Mosaic Take 2
With the installation of a custom metal adapter, the moonlight focuser is now mounted to the Vixen VC200L cassegrain scope. The old focuser was disconnected from power and remains in…
Analog.. who knew?
I have been reading, buying and collecting the Analog SF “pulp magazine” for decades. They are the ones usually in discount piles along with romance novels and other low value…
Full Moon 20240524
After 2-3 years of attempts, this snapshot of the full moon may be finally the image I was looking for. No other combination of telescope, camera lens, and camera gave…
Science Rendezvous 2024
Science Rendezvous Kingston is an educational outreach event led by Queen’s University. This year again it was held in the downtown area, recently renamed to the Slush Puppy Place, on…
Aurora! 20240510
The first major aurora we have seen since 2023 March 23… it’s been a long time. This is the allsky1 camera footage in the form of a video This is…
minor planet opposition resource
This website was brought to our attention and it a great aid in planning to image minor planets! https://doncarona.tamu.edu/apps/minorbody/opposition/ https://kingston.rasc.ca/asteroids The following RASC-KC members and past members who have had…
20240408 total solar eclipse – allsky1
One of the many data recorders we had running during the eclipse, was our allsky1 camera system, configured to take images in the daytime. It saved one to two images…
20240408 total solar eclipse – radio jove
For those that have to deal with clouds interfering with visual astronomy, we have some words for you: Radio Astronomy! Our Radiojove telescope system was up and running during the…
Is it spring yet?
Is it spring yet? This image from 13 years ago shows snow… much like it was over this past weekend. We continued to be optimistic and built two more new…
Jupiter 20240317
The SCGO Serenity Observatory Imaging Kit was disassembled for maintenance and possible upgrades as the forecast was rain rain rain snow for the next serveral days. And then of course…
Gardening has sprung
A short trip to the Selby TCO Agromart resulted in this: a 50″x16′ cattle panel. It is going to make the best climbing trellis that we have ever had for…
Jupiter 20240312
Last night was the first opportunity in some days to do some more work on the mount. Previously I had raised the mount adapter by 2cm and also… forgot to…
Lunar Mosaic v3
This is the 3rd version of the lunar mosaic that was created with autostakkert! v4, registax and ms image composite editor (ICE). The first one was overexposed (1ms), the second…