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…
Allsky1 Reno
The Allsky1 camera system has been up and running since December 2005… coming up on 10 years! Last week, we renovated it by removing the 14″ dome, removed the 28watts…
Jupiter 2015 Apr 16 01:30 UT
Jupiter last night (21:23 EDT). Tried using the Televue x2.5 barlow and focus was incredibly soft. Went back to no barlow at all and this is the result. Standard 6ms…
Jupiter 2015 April 15
First image of Jupiter in the observing run last night. 2015 April 15 at 00:48 UT. Using a 20cm Meade LX200, a ZWO ASI 120MC camera, firecapture software and autostakkert!…
Saturn 2015 April 14
Saturn on the morning of Tuesday 2015 April 14th, about 04:00 EDT 20cm Meade LX200GPS (FL=2000mm) with a celestron x2 barlow (=FL=4000mm) and ZWO ASI 120MC camera. 744 frames of…