Supersid update
The SuperSID radio telescope system has had some coding updates. As of yesterday: The supersidpi data logger copies its data every hour to the file server every hour the file…
Radiojove issue
Yes.. another astronomy post… well.. it just snowed again yesterday and went down to -7C this morning.. so gardening season is not quite here yet. So.. onto RadioAstronomy! On sunday…
SupersidPi now connected to supersid receiver
Great! The experimental SuperSIDPi was connected to the SuperSID receiver yesterday morning and is now data logging real live data. The data file is being saved to the pi and…
supersid pi project failure 2020Feb Notes
These are the notes we made during another attempt at replacing the windows netbook running supersid v1.2.2 with a raspberry pi project. This would hopefully use less power (up to…
SuperSID Raspberry Pi SUCCESS!
After the last failure of trying to get python data logging code onto a Raspberry Pi 3B and failing with the latest Raspbian Buster OS (20210111), we decided to try…
Raspberry Pi SuperSID
Here we go again.. another attempt at building a SuperSID Monitor and data logger on a Raspberry Pi computer. Current running on a netbook with Windows 7, the netbook is…
Mars and Uranus 2021Feb03
We successfully imaged the planet Uranus back on 2021Jan24. At that time, an out of focus image helped to identify the planet showing a greenish cast. The most recent image…
ISS 2021feb06
The International Space Station passed over our location last night.. a low pass, peaking at 24 deg altitude. The issue was twilight… it was not dark enough to use a…
Mercury 2021 Jan 23
This is an image of Mercury, at its Greatest Eastern Elongation on 2021 January 23rd, looking West Southwest. At the time this image was taken, Mercury had a magnitude of…
2021jan08 – 3 planet conjunction
We searched out via google maps for a location with a good horizon to the southwest. Tonight was going to be the first clear evening in days.. weeks almost! We…
Jupiter 2020dec15
Best 5% of 4K frames It has been a typical November month of cloud.. but we were able to get outside Tuesday evening and image the now very very low…
Allsky1pi did *not* capture 2020dec07 fireball event
After the great “Brockville” fireball of 2020dec07, 19:30EST, we checked allsky1pi as well to see if it recorded the event that allsky2 (UWO) captured. It did not. Hmm… wonder why…
Fireball Monday 2020Dec07 19:30:38 EST
A nice fireball entered the atmosphere around 95km up just north of Fort Drum in Upper New York State, heading north, and ending 36km up just northwest of Brockville Ontario.…
Mars 2020Nov14
Mars on the cold evening of Saturday Nov 14th. It was already -6C but clear and relatively stable air. To get around the postprocessing overexposure of the last few nights,…