Category: astronomy

Note the bubble on the right hand side… not too level is it? This is the northern wall of our roll off roof observatory. It was level when we built…

The RASC-Kingston Centre met last night (Thursday June 12th) from 19:00-21:15 in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen’s University in Kingston. Introduction were made, announcements and discussion about the national…

A four hour job on Saturday morning led to the removal of the observatory roll off roof wheels (they were low profile 1″ rollers that did not roll well) and…

At the Astrocats trade show in Hamilton this past weekend (2014 May 3-4), one of the guest speakers was the foremost amateur astrophotographer in the world today, Damien Peach. His…

Earlier this year, Rogers Communication notified the Township of Stone Mills council that Rogers would be putting up a 106 metre tall guyed cell tower. About 400 metres away from…

This is the last clear night for some time now… Friday April 11th, 2014 with Jupiter well past zenith, using the 20cm LX200GPS and a x2.5 barlow giving an f25…

Jupiter Another nice night (Wednesday 2014 April 09) with relatively warm air, relatively clear skies to image under. We did the last benchmark runs with the Olivon (USB 1.1) camera…

Sunday 2014 April 07 was another clear night, so out I went to do another imaging run of Jupiter, hopefully the last on the 20cm with the Olivon camera. Focusing…

Three nights in a row now we have had somewhat clear skies, temperatures above 0C and no snow falling from the sky. The image above is of Jupiter from Wednesday…

The Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance 2 system was completely rebuilt from the ground up. A reused computer (Windows 7, Intel atom 1.6GHZ processor, 2GB ddr2 RAM) was put together and install…

By now you may have heard about the St. Thomas (Ontario) Fireball on Tuesday 2014 March 18th at 10:24pm. http://meteor.uwo.ca/research/fireball/events/st_thomas/overview.html Seven all-sky cameras of Western’s Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN)…

Meteors have been in the news recently, so I have added the last two “spectacular” meteors that the allsky2 camera system have seen recently. On Monday 2014 March 17 06:39:00…

This is a short 10 second video of Jupiter and its four Galilean moons using the system we hope to capture the occultation of Regulus Thursday morning around 02:06 EDT.…

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre met last night, Thursday 2014 March 13th in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen’s University. Our Guest Speaker: Dr. John Percy…