Saturns Moons 20260805
Greetings! A game changer in wavelet processing has happened. I’ve been meaning to dive into wavesharp for some months now, trying to replace registax as my wavelet processing step. I…
Saturn 20260811
Up and out before 04:00 edt this morning. Realigned the finder scope to the main optics. Tried using polaris and moving the scope in N/S Dec moved the star, moving…
Saturn 20260629
A pre 04:00edt imaging session of Saturn this morning. The best image turned out to be the last before it got too bright at 08:49 UTC (04:49EDT). This is the…
Saturn 20260707
An early imaging session of Saturn this morning. The best image turned out to be one of the first before it got too bright at 08:09 UTC (04:09EDT). This is…
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…