Category: astronomy

Last nights forecast for this morning showed me 100% high cloud. High cloud is sometimes totally transparent, sometimes totally opaque At 05:00 edt this morning it was a mixture of…

Another early morning… around 04:30 EDT.. although in hindsight it should have been 03:30 or 04:00… because cloud rolled in before 05:00 edt The first imaging run was the best…

And this was the best of 22 runs of imaging Jupiter early this morning. Each run was 180 seconds using an exposure around 3.6ms, a frame rate of 150+ fps…

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A very long night and into the morning for the last Titan shadow transit of Saturn for another 13+? years. It worked! We Got One! The transparency was poor with…

A really really nice fireball overnight. attached is the nightly summary image, the event image and if not too big, the 8 second video 20250910 04:31:30 UTC = 00:31:30 EDT…

These are the summary images from the UWO/SCGO Allsky2 fireball camera from the nights of 2025 Aug 11/12, 1213 and 13/14. Even with the large moon through most of the…

This is a 9 image animated .GIF from the SCGO Allsky1 camera system of the Ariane6 rocket fuel dump that many saw Tuesday evening from 22:32-22:38 EDT in the East…

Up and out early last Wednesday morning (2025 July 02) around 04:00 edt (008:00 utc) to catch the shadow of the Saturnian moon Titan transitting across the surface of Saturn.…

Science Rendezvous Kingston is a FREE, annual science festival for Southeastern Ontario families hosted by Queen’s University. Our 2025 event will take place Saturday, May 10, 10 am – 3…

Some decent aurora showed last evening from about 21:00 edt to 01:00 this morning. An allnight video is here: The startrail is here: and the keogram here: and the best…

Lucky imaging, Firecapture, ROI and cutouts Planetary Imaging took a Quantum Leap with the advent of Lucky Imaging and digital cameras. Lucky imaging is the process of taking thousands of…

This is the camera setup we used last night for the total lunar eclipse. Skywatcher Star Adventurer on a tripod Ball joint head canon T7i DSLR with a 100-300mm zoom…

This is the best image of the run of imaging of Jupiter Tuesday evening. The highlight of the night was a double moon shadow transit, Europa first and smallest and…

Whilst waiting for the double moon shadow transit on Jupiter Tuesday evening, I did a few runs of Mars imaging. The wind was brutal.. gusting and then not. It did…