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…
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…