Category: astronomy

First twofor observing runs in the same day in a very long time. After the 01:00 am run this morning I went back out in the evening at 20:00 EST…

As noted previously, it was a bad morning for imaging, but what else are you going to do? -13C and a good wind of 20kph with gusts. The telescope shook…

The Kingston Astronomy Club (aka The RASC Kingston Centre) met last night at Queen’s University. Our guest speaker was Mike Earl, a graduate student at the Royal Military College. Mike…

Our new Supersid Space Weather Monitor moved from inside to outside last week, as all systems seemed to be performing well. The antenna arms are 2m long with at least…

Wow.. even colder this morning! Why do I do this again? -18C at 05:30. Prepared with new thermo mittens, not gloves, in the hopes of keeping fingers working. Hmm.. seem…

It has been 7 days since the last short, also frigid, imaging session. After 05:30 EST this morning (Wednesday in case this note gets delayed), it was -16C. The hand…

Wow.. clear skies this morning… could not resist. tried not to look at the weather station before going out… good thing too. coldest ever imaging session I have ever done..…

Checked out the clear sky clock website and the newer “Clear Outside” android app last night, for this morning and forecasts were good. So up and outside at 04:30 this…

This is my dedicated Solar Observer, Kim. I am continually impressed by her dedication to getting out at every possible day to observe the sun and its sunspots. This was…

Kim picked up the Supersid receiver last month and over the holiday break we built the loop antenna and connected it to this radio receiver. After disabling windows 7 auto…

Went outside this am around 05:30 to -6C air and clear skies and full moon setting. Not bad… first time in a while. Seeing was good, transparency was average and…

Went out twice this morning… first time between 04:55 and 05:04.. haze and cloud moving in, good gusts of wind that moved the scope. Went out again later when it…