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…
accurate time
Astronomers watch the mostly static skies. Once in awhile, something moves. Sometimes things move fast.. very fast. At those times it is very useful to know what time it is.…
upcoming occultation
from wikipedia.org An occultation occurs when an apparently larger body passes in front of an apparently smaller one. A transit occurs when an apparently smaller body passes in front of…
meade lx200gps mods
We are working on making the RASC-KC’s 20cm LX200GPS accessible remotely to members of the Centre. One of the many issues was a digital camera. They are expensive and all…
SID1 status
The old Sudden Ionsopheric Disturbance system 1 (SID1) does not seem to have survived the transition from the old computer running windows NT2000 and having a physical COM1 port, to…
seti@home update update
Yay! After first joining the effort on April 12, 1999, 1:58 pm Over 13 years now dedicated to signal processing radio telescope data. We have gained a few more spots…
Upcoming events next week
Monday March 18, 2013 The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre regular meeting, 7pm, Ellis Hall Room 324, Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario. “You Can Almost Touch the Stars”…
Comet C/2011 L4 ( PanSTARRS )
Canon A495, 15sec f5.8 iso 400 at 20:23 EDT Canon A2400IS, 5 sec f4.5 iso 800 at 20:20 EDT Thursday March 14th, 2013 we went out to suddenly clear skies…
New lighting for Kingston City Park
While walking through the park the other day(2013 March 11), I noted that the City of Kingston was in the process of replacing the sidewalk lighting fixtures through the park…
KAON session
On Saturday March 9th, 2013 we held another Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network Open House and Observing session at the Queen’s University Observatory on Ellis Hall. The talk was on “Heavenly…
SID2 analysis
sid2-2013feb25 (pdf) We had time to sit down and take a good look at the data coming out of the Sudden Ionospheric Detector 2 today and it matched up pretty…