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,…
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,…