Jupiter with Orion Starshoot camera
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…
Wednesday: Jupiter and Mars
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…
Jupiter, night #4
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…
SID2 recommissioning
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…
St. Thomas Fireball
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 in the news
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…
Regulus occultation prep
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 Kingston Astronomy Club Met
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…
Upcoming Events at SCGO
It’s been a fairly quiet season here at SCGO. But the thaw is coming, the snow and ice are going and soon we will be able to be back outside…
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
Book Review: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield Wow. What a read. Received this back in 2013 December and took my time going through it, finishing…
KAON Saturday 2014 March 08
Greetings partially clear skies! For the first time in 5 or 6 months (2013 September?) The skies were clear enough to set up on the observing deck! The Kingston Astronomy…
SID2 update
The Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) 2 system still has not achieved 100% operation. It is being hosted on a newer computer that also hosts a weather station and operates under…
Asteroidal occultation Nike and TYC 0642-01123-1
On Monday evening 2014 March 03 the Asteroid Nike (307) will occult the star TYC 0642-01123-1 UT Time: 01:54:05 Tuesday 2014 March 04 (subtract 5 hours for EST) Location: Areas…
The Kingston Astronomy Club met
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre met last night, Thursday 2014 February 13th in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen’s University. We finally returned to our regular…