Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
astronomy in general
The Kingston Astronomy Outeach Network (KAON) held an open house at Queen’s University Observatory on Saturday 2013 February 09 starting at 7:30pm EST. Nathalie Ouellette, the observatory coordinator was there…
This is an image of Jupiter taken on 2013 Jan 10th around 18:03 EST. According to Stellarium v0.11.4, Jupiter appeared to be 45.3 arc seconds large at this time .…
Things are coming along nicely. Radiojove has been showing excellent data since we turned off and removed the desktop allsky1 computer system. It was radiating Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) like…
Over the last couple of months, the allsky2 camera dome has been condensing on the inside. We’ve tried all kinds of things to eliminate or reduce it but nothing has…
The SCO Allsky2 camera/UWO camera10 captured 113 events last night (Dec 13/14, 2012) Of those 9 were false positives (a bit of condensation inside the dome and passing car headlights)……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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