Saturn 2022 July 23
Saturn is well placed in the morning sky after midnight, approaching opposition on 2022 August 14. At 01:00 EDT it will be at its highest altitude above the horizon, due…
Aurora 2022July07
This is a still image from last nights Allsky1Pi camera system, of aurora captured around 23:30:39 EDT, Thursday 2022 July 07. The moon was above the horizon and there were…
Jupiter 2022July04
Saturn was up nicely in the morning, as was Jupiter. So the same was done for Jupiter… the image above with just the regular minimal information annotation and the image…
Saturn 2022July04
This is Saturn from Monday morning.. early Monday morning. The point of this post was to show the results of some troubleshooting with file and image management. Over the last…
UAP 2022 June 19 06:13-06:26 UTC
**Updated 2022June20 – other astronomers at the Lennox Addington Dark Sky Site also saw this visually and captured a couple of images. Way to go! Well.. that was a really…
X1. solarflare 2021 October 28
Region 2887 Start Time UT 15:17; Max 15:35; End 15:48 Offscale of the realtime display… will need to reprocess this to get the peak showing…
Life in the country – supersidpiant
Just one little ant… just one little ant was seen on the supersidpi unit, out in the observatory. A closer look showed that he had friends.. lots of friends… We…
Total Lunar Eclipse 2022May15/16
There was a total lunar eclipse on the evening of Sunday 2022May15th and ran past midnight into May 16th. We had a lot of cloud here that was coming in…
Solar Flare X1.13 2022May03-13:25UTC
This is the SuperSID data from the X1.13 class solar flare that occurred on Tuesday 2022 May 03, peaking at 13:25 UTC (-4=09:25 EDT). This is not too surprising as…
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…