Two nice Meteors 2014 Feb 06
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…
waning moon
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…
Occultation of Regulus by 163 Erigone – 2014 March 20
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…
Somewhat Clear Skies but no aurora
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…
Geminids 2013
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…
tech failures
Over the last two weeks we’ve had some tech failures in the computing area here at Starlight Cascade. First we investigated a very loud noise coming from the observatory one…
Comets C/2012 S1 ISON
This is Comet C/2012 D1 ISON, seen from our backyard early this morning (Thursday 2013 November 14) around 05:30 EST. It was a consumer Canon A2400IS pocket camera running CHDK…
Fireball over Yarker UT 2013Nov08 06:58:27
Fireball over Yarker Ontario at UT 2013Nov08 06:58:27 The video has also been uploaded for this event. Allsky2 camera system. This is a compilation image of many short exposure images…
Solar Eclipse
Sunday morning 2013 November 03, there was a solar eclipse, in progress as the sun rose that morning. In any event we were onsite (a nearby hill with a good…
ScienceCast
We didn’t find out until today but a short clip from one of our allsky cameras was used in a short science cast video on the net, located here (…
Telescope Mirror Cleaning
On Sunday October 27th 2013, 6 members of the Kingston Astronomy Club got together to remove, clean and replace the two optical mirrors in the 16″ telescope. The entire process…
Another aurora
For the 2nd time in a week, another good auroral display down at our 44 degrees of latitude on the evening of 2013 October 8th. The entire good display lasted…
Crescent Moon and Venus
Sunday 2013 September 8th, showed a beautiful 3 1/2 day old crescent moon conjunction with the planet Venus. This first image is a wide angle view to establish the scale,…