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…
Observatory updates
Sunday 2018 March 11 More work continued on the Tardis Observatory this weekend. The eastern door hinge mounts were replaced with better, stronger and thicker wood, as the door was…
New mount approaching first light.
A small dovetail does the trick in attaching the Meade DS90 Optical Tube Assembly (OTA) to the Meade mount. A layer of cork is between the ring and the dovetail…
2018 Jan Lunar Eclipse
This is the baseline image taken the night before the Total Lunar Eclipse. This was 2018 Jan 30 at 18:20 EST with an old Canon DSLR with a 300mm lens…
Celestron – disassemble
This is our Celestron C80 refractor. It too had dirty optics, in particular, the spacers between the primary lens doublet had moved away from the edge and into the central…
cloud=no astro=disassemble!
What does an astronomer do when it is cloudy and very cold? Not much astronomy to be sure. So instead of observing the stars with telescopes, lets do some disassembly!…