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…
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…