Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
We have finally had a couple of really nice meteors on the night of Wed/Thur Feb 5/6 2014 The first one at 01:27:11 UT or 20:27:11 EST was a very…
The waning crescent moon taken early this morning (2014 January 28) from the back deck with the Canon ELPH120 on a tripod, 3 sec exposure time, f6.9, ISO 1600 Focusing…
General info from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/163_Erigone) On March 20, 2014, Erigone is expected to occult the first-magnitude star Regulus. This event will be visible along a path about 40 miles wide…
It has been cloudy or very cold for too many weeks now. We came home from an astronomy meeting and it was not that cold (-8C) and not that windy…
This is the compilation image of 91 meteors imaged last night (2013 Friday/Saturday December 13/14) of the Geminid meteor shower from the Allsky2 camera system. North is down, east is…