8 second meteor 2019 March 01
Upon reviewing and discovering bugs in the last weeks worth of Allsky2 camera code, I processed it manually and came across this nice 8 second meteor on the morning of…
video finder
We’ve recently taken these two items and put them together to create a usb digital webcam finder, as opposed to the traditional video camera with an Analog to Digital converter…
365 Days of Astronomy
In the theme of 365 Days of Astronomy, we made a New Year Resolution to attempt to observe or image every day possible in 2019. These are the results This…
Friday Night imaging
A nice night for a change, Friday evening. Maybe a little hazy (what? why with a forecast of freezing fog? Took out the old DSLR on a tripod and did…
Mars Neptune Conjunction
A nice telescopic planetary conjunction coming up in a couple of weeks… Mars and Neptune on the evening of Thursday 2018 Dec 06. Mars will set around 23:00 EST in…
Astronomy? It’s been a *month* !
Fall is usually the ideal time to go out back and observe and image the sky. Cooler temperatures, and most importantly, no bugs (mosquitos, black flies, deer flies, horse flies…
serenity Imaging session
After my last great prediction for clear skies and planning an imaging session earlier in the week… and then having it totally cloud over hours earlier than predicted… I decided…
Serenity unfolds
This is a 45 second video of the SCGO Serenity Observatory opening up for the evening. This is a 4’x4′ imaging platform with offset roof and offset doors (to cover…
Dew Heaters
After a dewy FallNStars star party weekend it was time to go back and start working on making work all of the various dew heating bits and pieces we have…
Got Cloud?
It’s been a week since our last astronomical imaging session. Perhaps this satellite image of CLOUD helps to explain why. That and the high humidity leaves transparency very low.
IAU2009 Collector card reprint
We’ve heard a rumour that the RASC National Observing Committee is having a reprint run of three of the astronomy collector cards pictured above. This is great news. They were…
Serenity Image Run #5
On the night of Thursday 2018 August 30th EDT, or Friday 2018 Aug 31 UT, I went out in the intermittent cloud and heavy dew to run a test of…
Serenity Imaging Day 4
Serenity Imaging Day 4 Still commissioning. Another hour last night from when the stars came out until the fog and dew stopped the work. The 90 degree diagonal came off…