Geminid Meteor Shower 2012
The SCO Allsky2 camera/UWO camera10 captured 105 events last night (Dec12/13, 2012) Of those 33 were false positives (a bit of condensation inside the dome and passing car headlights)… so…
New night sky views of earth, north america and the kingston ontario region
RELEASE: 12-422 NASA-NOAA SATELLITE REVEALS NEW VIEWS OF EARTH AT NIGHT WASHINGTON — Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed…
Mercury Greatest Elongation
Tomorrow, 2012 December 04, Tuesday, Mercury will be at its greatest elongation W (21 deg) for the best viewing of the year. This screen capture comes from a great planetarium…
seti@home update
An update on our seti@home progress. 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…
Leonids 0 Clouds 1
This morning was the peak of the Leonid Meteor Shower… only the clouds won. We were using the clear sky clock last night to see when it would clear and…
site updates
Some of the automated data gathering routines and systems have failed in the times since the last time change from daylight savings to standard time. Let me tell you how…
Aurora 2012 Nov 13/14
Aurora 2012 Nov 13/14 There was another aurora event overnight that was not too bad. Kim went out and got a few images on the Canon camera but those have…
Aurora Image Archive now online
2012 october 25 After asking ourselves many times… when was that great aurora a few years ago? and having to search through tens of thousands of images… we decided to…
meteor 2012 Oct 18 01:03:14 EDT
A nice meteor showed up this morning… 2012 October 18 in the 90 seconds preceeding 01:03:14 EDT (-4 UTC) or 2012Oct18 05:03:14 UT as seen by allsky1
Fireball 2012Oct05 05:26:28 UT
6mb .avi video Another fireball was recorded at the Starlight Cascade Observatory on the morning of Friday October 5th, 2012. In Universal Time (UT) the event started at 05:26:28 and…
Another meteor!
Months of nothing and boom.. two big ones within days of each others. The first was 2012 Sept 22 00:29:46 UT (Sept 21 20:29:46 EDT) Fireball reported across SE Ontario…
Newer CHDK firmware does 1024 seconds!
We’ve talked a lot about the CHDK software available for Canon Powershot series cameras. We took the old Canon A540 with the new software to Fall’N’Stars and did three sets…
Observing Tables
We built this portable observing table 12? years back and it has been working wonderfully. Now we find ourselves needing a 2nd one so we had to look closely at…
Fall’N’Stars in Review
FallNStars is a star party held annually and jointly with the RASC Belleville Centre and Kingston Centre. We switch leads each year to share the work and responsibility. 2012 was…