possible fireball Tuesday 2016 October 04
There were twitter reports this morning of a possible fireball last night around 22:30 EDT. As always, media and other 3rd hand reports come with very little detail and timings…
Raspberry Pi projects #2 and 3
We have completed the R&D portions of projects 2 and 3 with the Raspberry Pi and am amazed at how flexible these things are. #2 was as a display controller…
Loud Boom! that was not Susan Ivanova*
Woke up Sunday morning to twitter and web reports of a loud noise Saturday evening, 2016 Sept 24th around 20:50 edt. http://www.kingstonregion.com/news-story/6877053-mysterious-boom-startles-south-frontenac-residents/. Local television also covered the story: http://www.ckwstv.com/2016/09/25/128535/ The…
Collimation for fun
Much more time has gone into the Torus telescope project this summer. The latest results from last night show a good night coarse collimation. The plan was daytime coarse, nighttime…
Saturn 20160826
After drying out the imaging laptop for a week, it was fired up for a quick imaging run of Saturn on Friday evening, after returning from a field trip to…
short book review
Exploring Mars by Robert S. Richardson It doesn’t take long getting into the book that yes indeed, it was published in 1954. No landing on Mars, travel to Mars, or…
Perseid 2016 peak
The total count for the night was 58, of which one of them looks suspiciously like an alien spacecraft veering off course in just over 6 hours. The first recorded…
Perseid runup 2016
It has been surprisingly clear in the runup to the 2016 Perseid meteor shower. Over the last few days we have had captured on our allsky2 system: Tue 20160802: 14…
Mars 20160718
Was imaging the moon last night just after sunset and managed to start two and only two runs of Mars when the bus stopped and all the mosquitos got out…
Mars 2016 June 23
We went out Thursday evening 2016 June 23rd after sunset.. ie 21:00EDT! wow! Found Mars pretty quickly and ran 10 imaging sessions from 01:11 UT to 01:28UT.. only 17 minutes!…
Our 1st meteor smoke trail!
Early this morning at approx 03:07:12 EDT (07:07:12 UTC) we had a good, bright bolide/fireball, and even better it was right overhead, and even better… it left a smoke trail!…
Saturn 20160524 UT
Saturn the same night as Jupiter and Mars, but even lower to the horizon. No cassini division visible, poor seeing and poor transparency. It can only get better!
Mars 20160524 UT
Mars as imaged still very low to the southeastern horizon, right in the light pollution dome of Kingston, Ontario. Mars is approaching closest approach for the next 26 months and…
Jupiter 20160524 UT
It’s been 10 days since my last imaging run, mostly because of being away for the last week and then prepping for the last week. Went outside and discovered that…
Jupiter 20160514 UT
A poor session of imaging Jupiter in the evening. Gets dark very late now… not worth imaging before 21:30 EDT. Otherwise I get strange colour balancing going on with RGB…