Replacing the focus mount adapter
This is the “before” image of the 2″ wooden adapter between the telescope primary cell and the 2″ focuser. It is needed as the original setup included the filter wheel,…
dangers of working in observatories
We spent some time working on the Torus telescope and Tardis observatory yesterday.. maybe an hour working on the wheels and rail transport and then moved inside to work on…
Tardis wheels
A few weeks back we changed out the six regular wheels that moved the Tardis Observatory off from the telescope, to four inverted V wheels on an angle iron rail.…
testing the lens
We purchased a canon 75-300mm zoom lens for astronomy purposed, but have not yet had a lot of chance to try it out. So in the daylight of the backyard…
Telescope Mirror Cleaning time
This is the 20cm telescope mirror from “Starbuck”, Kim’s newtonian on a Dobsonian mount. Having just come back from the RASC General Assembly, she has refilled the motivation reservoir and…
Allsky2 camera operational
The allsky2 camera system has been down since mid April 2017. We thought it was the camera. After receiving a replacement and having it fail as well, attention turned to…
Roll Off Building Observatory reno
The Tardis Observatory was reno’d last weekend in the form of removing x6 4″ rubber/poly wheels, flipping the L angle iron to an inverted V, and adding in x4 inverted…
Luna 20170603
While prepping the scope and waiting for the double shadow transit of Jupiter to start, I did a few quick 30 second imaging runs of the moon. Of note is…
Jupiter 20170603 double shadow transit
2017 June 01, 02 and 03 were the first string of three days in a row of Jupiter imaging that I can remember.. Granted two of those days were just…
Fireball Monday 20170529 ending 23:24:01 EDT
A nice fireball reported to us by a local observer who witnessed it live. Very much to our south and captured by our older Allsky1 camera system during an 80…
Jupiter 20170527
First time in a month and 10 days to attempt to image Jupiter. Popped outside quickly around 21:00 EDT, pointing was bad, tracking was bad. 1st attempt at 30 seconds…
Jupiter 20170417
After an annoying hockey game last(Monday) night (Boston lost), I attempted some imaging of Jupiter. After 30 minutes of attempting to obtain a successful alignment, i said nasty words and…
Jupiter 20170414
This is another good imaging run on Friday evening, 2017 April 14th. Only 12 runs done and the third one needs some trimming as Jupiter hit an edge of the…
Jupiter 20170408 – Opposition
Another long day, but the skies had cleared and KAON ran a little late. Managed to get the observatory open on this, the Opposition of Jupiter around 22:42 EDT Saturday…
Allsky2 Fireball Mon 20170403 03:24:24 UT
Another large, bright slow moving fireball event overnight…. beginning to wonder if something is attracting them to us (just watched Ice Age Collision Course)… UT Mon 20170403 03:24:24 Local Time…