Wilfred Buck
From an article I wrote back in 2024: –cut here– We drove out to the Summer Saskatchewan Star Party in 2006. We arrived on site and had one of the…
Jupiter 20260411
Saturday evening was my 12th imaging session of the year… and cold enough that my sinuses were not happy this morning! Last night was a special event.. the moon Callisto…
Jupiter 20260407
A nice clear sky greeted us Tuesday evening after a dumping of white cold feathers the previous 24 hours. Seeing was a little better than average (6/10) but then went…
Jupiter 20260404
Last night was a good example of the downside of rolloff observatories. Yes it was clear but it was also very windy and gusty and the Telescope was vibrating like…
Jupiter 20250304
If you can believe it, this is the first Jupiter imaging session since January 9th.. Better yet, Jupiter was near its highest altitude, so less air to look through, than…
Total Lunar Eclipse 20260303
Up at 04:30 EST this morning , bundling up in the -18.2C temperature, to image as much of the total lunar eclipse that we could. We used a Canon DSLR…
Aurora 20260120
Aurora last night… with a KP index reaching 8? We went out in the evening to take some DSLR image and they were ok. Nothing spectacular… we have had better.…
Jupiter 2026Jan08
And finally.. after 44 days of cloudy skies and or frigid temperatures, the skies cleared on 2026 January 8th and this was the first imaging session from the Serenity Observatory…
Welcome to 2026
Another trip around the Sun, another round of creating expectations and benchmarks for the remainder of the next orbit. 2025 – I did not meet my goal of 50 imaging…
Interesting event
An interesting event was caught last night on the allsky1 camera system. This is one still of 16. The interesting bit is the large cloud near the centre of the…
Aurora 20251112
A really great Aurora last evening/this morning… too bad most of it was behind the cloud. Nonetheless, there were some great colours starting around 01:00 utc (20:00 EST) until around…
Ariane6 20251104
Our allsky1 camera system captured 15 images of the rocket dumping fuel last night. Because the exposures were on the order of 20 seconds, the spiral shape did not show…
Saturn 20251029
Imaging Jupiter in the morning, imaging Saturn in the evening… it’s been awhile since I’ve been out after dusk and before dawn. Saturn started low (about 34 degrees altitude) and…
Jupiter 20251029
And another “winter is coming” cold morning… a whole -1C !! 15 runs from 0918-1016 UTC of Jupiter.. no great red spot seeing: poor (image was bouncing around a lot)…
Jupiter 20251026
A big reminder that 04:00 is much better than 05:00 because the cloud rolled in at 05:00 edt this morning. Ick! This was the best of 19 imaging runs, using…