Serenity Imaging Day 3
Serenity Imaging Day 3 Another hour last night from when the stars came out until the mosquitos drove me indoors. Successful alignment with Arcturus and Altair (after 3 attempts), pointing…
The Serenity Imaging Platform
Some years ago we realized that the increasing height of the sugar maple tree and two ash trees near the SCG Observatory would cause us to relocate the observatory farther…
Imaging Day 2
Last night was the 2nd successive night of somewhat successful imaging, mainly used as a configuration and calibration session. New sticky foamy weatherstripping went along the wall/roof interface, to help…
Imaging Again!
The last many months have seen a decided lack of imaging and astronomical observing. It probably all started when the 16 year old wooden pier was removed as it was…
Bright meteor 20180629 01:24:58 EDT
Reviewing the nightly allsky2 images of bright meteors, we came across this *nice* meteor at 05:24 UTC or 01:24 EDT. Needless to say, we were not awake to see this…
seti@home
I first joined the distributed computer project SETI@Home back on 1999 April 12th. That means early next year will be 20 years. Wow. Very few things survey for 20 years…
Radiojove vs lightning
This is the affect of the thunderstorm/lightning storm that rolled through our area last night… less than an hour overhead directly, but the Radiojove radio telescope system was picking up…
Supersid anomaly
This is a screen capture of the Supersid v1.2.2 software capturing the Supersid receiver data. We’ve started to notice that overtime the plotted graph shrinks down to almost no signal.…
ISS transit of the Sun 2018June02
On Saturday 2018 June 2nd, we drove over to the Venus transit site south of Newburgh (staying on the public road part and not trespassing) to observe and image the…
ssd upgrade
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are one of the best upgrades you can get for your system (server, workstation and laptop). One of the issues they do have however, is that…
Observatory Renos
This is the main work surface in the observatory, located on the north side. In the roof rebuild, the work surface was relocated to the south side, so as to…
SCGO roof 2
720x480p 7MB video clip made with ffmpeg (converting still image .jpg to .mpg video, handbrake (conversion to mkv to allow movie maker to open it), movie maker for windows to…
High winds, roof flies, RIP SCGO
Yesterday, Wednesday 2018 April 4th, Eastern Ontario had a wind storm. It’s not the first we have had. Back in 2003? we had the remnants of a hurricane roll over…
Conjunction moon venus mercury
It was a rare event on Sunday 2018 March 18th, a conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Mercury in the western horizon after sunset. Taken with our old Canon DSLR…