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…
Jupiter 2015 April 07
Went out last night at 23:30UT and at 01:00 UT April 8th. I try to file this run as 2015April07 It gets confusing imaging across the UT midnight. 1st time…
Jupiter 2015 April 01
Got in some quick imaging of Jupiter after 9pm local last night. Almost full moon within 30-40 degrees of Jupiter did not help too much. Meade 10cm SC F10 FL=1000mm…
Math is fun!
Leo Laporte on Twit.tv was recently talking about a new internet connected talking Barbie with the infamous “Math is Hard!” scandal. Well.. math is not hard and this is simple…
Jupiter 2015 March 28
Both Kim & I were out saturday night during Earth Hour, doing imaging runs of the moon and Jupiter. A brief survey of the local neighbourhood showed little to no…
Jupiter 2015 March 23
A good imaging session of Jupiter last night – 2015 March 23 Local from around 19:45 to 20:15 EDT (UT-4) For the first time this year, a dew shield was…