365 days of astronomy – april update
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: The…
Another meteor event 20190309 02:22:23 UTC
Another fireball captured on the Allsky2 camera system, first reported by a local astronomer in a hot tub 🙂 The 4MB video can be seen here. We captured only the…
Sky Anomaly
Greetings… this is an interesting one. A sky anomaly went overhead last night (Thursday 2019 March 7th) at 23:38:30 UTC, 18:38:30 EST overhead towards the north. A link to the13…
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.