Allsky1pi aka allskypi
This is part of the new allsky1pi camera system, specifically the ZWO ASI 120mc camera with its included wideangle lens, and a reaspberry pi model 3b. The camera is mounted…
opposition 2020
This image shows Mars at 7.2 arcseconds in diameter and a declination of +0deg 52 min and an altitude of 22 deg, and using 3ms exposures. Following up on the…
advice from down under
We were wondering through youtube this morning and came across some nice videos of an Australian astronomer Dylan O’Donnell. This one was particularly nice: We use some of the software…
Betelgeuse
This is the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion. The image on the left is from 2019 October 23 and the image on the right from 2019…
Allskypi pathfinder project
Our v2 allsky camera was an SBIG ST237A camera and was operational from 2006Dec-2018July. Ever since then we have been toying around with building another system out of existing spare…
Asteroid Bennu – mapping
This image shows sample site Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. The image is overlaid with a graphic of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to illustrate the scale of…
Transit of Mercury
You may have heard of the Big astronomy event… the Transit of Mercury across the Sun. Well… this is the view we had from our location…. No Sun. No Mercury.…
True Field of View
True Field of View In the past, when imaging Jupiter. I did a full field image run, put the image up on the screen, found out the apparent diameter of…
Transit of Mercury 2019 Nov 11
The transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun is fast approaching! Time to start thinking and preparing for the event. This graphics shows that the entire transit will…
Sunrise over SuperSID
Sunrise one recent morning looking over the TARDIS observatory, the Serenity Observatory and the SuperSID antenna. Great way to start the day.. especially with hot-water-passed-through-ground-up-coffee-beans!
David Levy Speaking to RASC Belleville and Kingston Centres
Renowned Comet Hunter David H. Levy will be at Stirling Hall Theatre A on Queen’s University campus at 3:00pm on Sunday 2019 September 08, to speak to members of the…
seti@home update
It’s been over twenty years now of processing data from radio telescopes looking for signals of intelligence. There has been an ebb and flow of the data collected vs the…
Fireball! 20190724 02:44 EDT (06:44 UTC)
Zowee! A Big One! Meteorite that is. This is a combined image of 8 all sky cameras capturing the event on Wednesday morning, 2019 July 24th at 02:44 EDT (06:44…
cloudy april
So far this April, we have managed only 9 days out of 25 to do some type of astronomy related activities. This image is of the moon and Jupiter two…
supersid operational
Our supersid system has been operating at the edge of the property for 3 years now, mainly to get as faraway from any house generated RFI as we can. Too…