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…
Jupiter 20160611 UT
I modified the LX200 back to planetary imaging (after the Mercury Transit event) by removing the f3.3 focal reducer and putting the microfocuser back on, along with the televue x3…
Mars 20160528
Well, Mars did not turn out too well last night. At best it was 17 degrees off the horizon. What with mosquitos and cloud coming in, that was as good…
Jupiter 20160506 UT
Went outside to clear skies and a bit of a wind to test out the celestron nextar GT mount. In the meantime I fired up a new beta of firecapture…
Telescope mount reno
The Transit of Mercury is coming up soon and we are still scrambling to put together a tracking telescope mount in case we have to go travelling to get out…
Jupiter 20160428
Another attempted Jupiter imaging session Wednesday evening.. I know I know, up against “Survivor!” There was high passing cloud that “Clear Outside” said was 2%. Ha! It sure was lit…
Jupiter 20160427
An imaging session of Jupiter on Tuesday evening 2016 April 26 EDT, April 26/27 UT Sometimes it gets confusing, but all of the images are annotated in UT time, to…
Jupiter 20160423
Finally! Success! After three years + I have finally gotten an autoguiding system to work. Wow. This is going to be a game changer. In the past, because of the…
Sid2 shut down
We shut down SID2, the Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance system on Sunday 2016 April 24th. Over the last 2 years we have set it up indoors, moved it to an outside…
Jupiter 20160420
Wednesday evening showed a two day shy full moon lighting up the sky, but with Jupiter a fair ways up the sky. Always a good time to practice practice practice,…
Mars 20160417
Mars was actually a better target than Saturn was Sunday morning. Certainly brighter. The scale is also the same as the last two images. First time ever I am confident…