Fall’N’Stars 2013
The 14th annual Fall’N’Stars Star Party was held this past weekend (Friday to Sunday 2013 September 6-8) at the Boy Scout Camp Sagonska near Thomasberg Ontario. 25 people attended and…
Congrats Terry!
Press Release Join family, friends and colleagues of Terence Dickinson as he receives the County of Lennox & Addington Award for Lifetime Achievement. A special presentation will be held Thursday,…
Perseids 2013 a good year
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.…
Good Friday
Really! It is a good friday! Tonight at 21:00 Eastern is the first CFL football game in two weeks for the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Calgary. After Saskatchewan tromps on Calgary…
North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve
The North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve sign as seen from Road 506 looking south onto the site. The large parking lot with onsite toilets Awesome! Cleanest toilets around! Then again..…
L&A Dark Sky Viewing Area
The Lennox and Addington Dark Sky Viewing Area (37km north of Napanee on highway 41) can also be used in the daytime! Many often forget that a lot of astronomers…
early morning conjunction
This is one of many things you can see if you get up before Sunrise! Or at least what Kim sees before sunrise because I was still asleep 🙂 This…
piers and the earth moved
This is the wooden pier (four 2×6’s in a square with sand on the hollow inside) inside the observatory, built 10 years ago. There is a gap in the floor…
meade lx200 hand controller woes
This is the hand controller for the Meade LX200 GPS telescope. It is approx 10 years old now and the buttons have become a real pain to use. One must…
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre met
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre met last night, Tuesday May 21st, 2013 in MacCorry Hall Room B201 at Queen’s University. We were bumped from our regular…
David Levy Speaking Tour Kingston Event
Join us this spring when eight centres of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) will host a rare lecture tour by famous astronomer and comet discoverer David H. Levy.…
SETI@Home Update
An update on our seti@home progress. The SETI@Home client program was recently upgraded and today we downloaded v7.0.64 to install on the PCs and v7.0.65 for the macs. We are…
The Lunar X
We got home late but not too late to still observe and image the Lunar X feature on the moon. The event peaked around 20:00 local but was still visible…