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,…
Mars 2020nov04
Mars on Wednesday evening during the weekly social chat videoconference. Now that we are on Standard Time, it is a little easier to get outside and image in the evening.…
Mars 2020Nov01
After the last session on Oct30, I thought there were dust spots on the camera sensor window glass, so this was cleaned. I wanted to test it but there were…
Mars 2020Oct30
A good clear night, the first in a long time, albeit a little cold. Mars is now up high fairly early on in the evening, so we went out and…
Mars 2020Oct21
Mars Wednesday evening. It was unexpectedly somewhat clear, at least in the direction of Mars, last night. A lot of cloud all around, affecting other imagers to some degree. This…
Mars 2020 Oct 17
This is one of only two imaging runs of Mars on Friday evening. Another long day and a short night… not enough sleep hours in a day After completing the…
Jupiter double shadow transit 2020oct17
Shadow transits of Moons of Jupiter on Jupiter are relatively common. Double shadow transits are somewhat less common. Seen here is the moon Io off to the right with two…
Astronomy image processing
The current desktop computer that processes all of our astronomy images is nine years old. It’s specs are: Intelcore 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.8GHz, 4GB DDR2, 120GB SSD, DVD, Win10Pro64bit,…
Mars 2020 Oct 10 and 11
There were great plans afoot to image the planets this long weekend: Friday Saturday and Sunday evenings. Friday evening, the observatory was opened, the scope cooled down, and were just…
How much does the roof weigh?
The original metal roof of the SCGO observatory has blown off twice in very high winds, once by the remnants of a hurricane and the other by a blizzard. It…
Mars 2020sept25
Finally! After two years since the last opposition of Mars, I had a great night of imaging it. I had previously done a few back in June but Mars was…