Jupiter 2015 Nov 08
Another nice morning… seeing average to good, transparency average to good. The best image of Jupiter this morning as the corrector plate heater failed and it completely fogged over. This…
Jupiter Wed 2015 Nov 04
Another great morning to be out before sunrise and imaging Jupiter. This time was between 05:15 and 05:40 EST with the last quarter moon getting close. This was a 60…
Jupiter in the morning
It’s been awhile, but we made it outside this morning around 05:00 EDT to do some planetary observing and imaging before the clouds came in. I ended up using the…
Whats Up This Week?
What’s up this week? From the RASC 2015 Calendar Saturday 2015 Oct 24 Venus 1.7 deg upper right of Jupiter before sunrise Sunday 2015 Oct 25 Venus 1.2 deg right…
Morning Planetary Conjunction
Up early on the morning of Saturday 2015 October 10th, before sunrise, to see (from top to bottom) Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Moon. Mercury was coming up but did not clear…
Holleford Meteor Crater
It’s been a few years since we last stopped in at the Holleford Meteor Crater, northeast of the hamlet of Holleford in the Township of South Frontenac north of Kingston…
RMC renos coming along
The Royal Military College Physics Dept wing is in the midst of renovation and it seems to be coming along fine. Here is an image from earlier in August showing…
The things nightmares are made of
When we left work early Friday morning (2015 June 26), we had no idea what would be awaiting us upon our return. We spotted it some kms away.. wondering what…
Radiojove & UPS
Funny how the thing that is supposed to save you from troubles (an Uninterruptible Power Supply powering the RadioJove receiver and computer) is the thing that fails and gives you…
Observatory renovation
After 12 odd years, we decided it was time to renovate the SCG Observatory. It had been going through constant minor modifications from year to year, but this time was…
building a video finder
We have a large telescope that we are in the process of commissioning. One of the items that popped out of the process was the need for a relatively low…
RASC-KC met Thursday 2015 May 14th
The Kingston Astronomy Club (aka The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre) met Thursday night with a great turnout of 25+ people in a very small temporary room…
Jupiter 2015May06
After catching up on a little TV, waiting for the black flies to die down, and seeing Montreal was losing yet another hockey game, we went outside around 21:00 EDT…
2 Nice Meteors 2015 May 04
wow. nice meteors Sunday night/Monday morning north is up, west is right on these images from Allsky2, aka UWO #10 Allsky1 was completely wiped out by the full Flower Moon…
Torus repairs
The winter was particularly hard on the Torus scope, as a mouse like critter got into the scope and chewed through wires. When the telescope was first fired up this…