X-1.13 solar flare at 13:47 UTC 2022April30
X1.13 flare at 13:47 UTC You know its a good one when it goes offscale! 🙂 Sun azimuth 107, or 83 deg off due south /15= or about 5.5 hours…
Bright fireball event 2022 April 18 03:37UTC near Lake Simcoe expected to have dropped meteorites
This was captured on the allsky camera system that we host from the University of Western Ontario, SCGO Allsky2, Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN) UWO#10. A bright fireball was observed…
SuperSID and RadioJove
Both our SuperSID and RadioJove radio telescope systems were down the last few days. SuperSID required a lot of going back and reviewing the software from first principles and eventually…
1st Observing Session of 2022
This morning at 04:10 I got up (slowly and painfully) and went out to do my first imaging session of 2022, yep… Dec 11th was the last one. Venus, Saturn…
X1.3 solar flare at 17:39 UTC 2022 March 30
There were 17 solar flares yesterday, mostly C Class and a couple of M class… Today was this stupendous but short lived X1.3 class Solar Flare from Active Region AR12975……
Astroberry Testbed
The astroberry 4.04 install image was downloaded (about 4GB, 8GB uncompressed) and successfully installed on a 32GB microsd card. That went into the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and ran! The…
Jupiter 2021 December 22
The workflow process is slowly changing over time. Now I tend to do a full view overexposed capture to establish orientation of the moons of Jupiter, to math it up…
Jupiter 2021Dec12
Seeing was NOT DISGUSTING this evening… merely poor! The following three images are the best 5%, 10% and 25% of 1340 frames with autostakkert3! in a 30 second run. This…
Jupiter 2021Dec05
seeing = 1 = DISGUSTING Initial image full res wide view overexposed to confirm moon orientation no barlow. Ganymede further out on left, Europa closer in on right then to…
Jupiter 2021Dec03
Working through the troubleshooting still. Much hardness in troubleshooting as seeing is 1=DISGUSTING. uninstalled firecapture completely. reinstalled from scratch into new location. Always have the debayer option ON. That seems…
Jupiter 2021Nov23
More commissioning attempts at solving the bad colour. This is the results of processing 39 runs (more actually, some were very bad and not included) through PIPP (.ser to .avi…
Jupiter 2021Nov22
Profile=Jupiter Diameter=39.25″ Magnitude=-2.35 Altitude=29.35° Airmass=2.04 CMI=19.4° CMII=182.6° CMIII=31.3° (during mid of capture) This is the last image of the night’s run… still needs collimating.. and the colour issue still needs…
collimate! collimate! collimate!
Telescope optics tend to be a finicky and complex issue at times. Mirrors tend to be finished down to fractions of a wavelength of light across the mirror surface to…
Jupiter 2021Nov19
After doing the barlow test, I moved ahead to try Jupiter out again… with the max x3 barlow (which turned out to have dust spots, so it too is now…
Telescope barlow focuser relationship
I did a short experiment last night with barlows and focussing distances. The results baffle me so I am going to have to try it again. As a general rule…