Ariane6 20251104
Our allsky1 camera system captured 15 images of the rocket dumping fuel last night. Because the exposures were on the order of 20 seconds, the spiral shape did not show…
Saturn 20251029
Imaging Jupiter in the morning, imaging Saturn in the evening… it’s been awhile since I’ve been out after dusk and before dawn. Saturn started low (about 34 degrees altitude) and…
Jupiter 20251029
And another “winter is coming” cold morning… a whole -1C !! 15 runs from 0918-1016 UTC of Jupiter.. no great red spot seeing: poor (image was bouncing around a lot)…
Jupiter 20251026
A big reminder that 04:00 is much better than 05:00 because the cloud rolled in at 05:00 edt this morning. Ick! This was the best of 19 imaging runs, using…
woohoo Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon
We hit the back yard last night at 19:00edt and spent the next hour imaging and observing Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon, Comet C/2025 R2 Swan and I think she got…
Jupiter 20251019
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…
Jupiter 20251017
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…
Jupiter 20251016
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…
Saturn 20251006
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…
SCGO allsky2 fireball 20250910 04:31:30 UTC
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…
Perseids 2025 August
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…
Ariane6 fuel dump 20250812
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…
Saturn Titan shdows transit 20250702
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 2025
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…