Category: astronomy

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 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…

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…

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 (…

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…

The first Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) open house/public observing session/astronomy lecture of the “new season ” was held on Saturday September 14th, 2013 at the Ellis Hall Observatory on…

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,…

No, not the British TV series by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson in the early 1970’s with Ed Bishop and purple wigs and silver jumpsuits. No, this involves objects that were…

We had three cloud free moon free nights of Perseid meteor shower observing this year, the best ever! Better yet, the allsky cameras caught a lot of them as well.…