conjunction pleiades, jupiter, venus
On the morning of Sunday 2012 July 01 (Happy Canada Day!) we were up and outside at 04:00 to observe and photograph this conjuntion of the Pleiades star cluster, the…
July 4th, Happy Holidays to our friends to the south
It was a very restless sleep overnight, very hot and muggy. We got rain that we needed, and in the transient sleep I saw lighting flashes, strange squeels and the…
-8 magnitude Iridium flare
This is what a -8 magnitude Iridium flare looks like (brightest point in the south south east sky). Pretty neat and pretty bright. The brighter they are the shorter duration…
Telescope cover modifications
On the left was the existing state of the 20cm LX200gps of the RASC-KC. The wooden cover had to be slid off from left to right and then manually dropped…
Transit of Venus 2012 June 05
The Transit of Venus 2012 has come and gone. It was a great astronomical event. We had lots of equipment and things in general went well. Some preliminary images: Kim…
Victoria Day weekend
It was a great Victoria Day long weekend. In some ways too short.. in other ways.. good that it did not last longer. If it did you would have more…
International Astronomy Day 2012 April 28
It was International Astronomy Day on Saturday April 28th, 2012 and members and friends of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre were out in force at Confederation…
minor aurora 2012apr25/26
There was some minor aurora seen last night from our location today20120426.gif (38mb) from about 22:00-01:00 We of course missed it by sleeping on a Thursday night, resting for work…
This is Spring right……
Plus 3C, winds from the North, and darn cold out. The peas started to come up after our short rain burst on Friday, and the radishes are slowly coming along.…
Transit of Venus Eclipse Glasses have arrived
We have received our allotment of elcipse glasses, or more aptly named, “transit of venus glasses” and will be distributing them at public events up to the Transit event on…
possible Fireball 2012 April 18th 04:43 local
Another possible fireball / meteor was captured on the Starlight Cascade allsky camera system early this morning (2012 april 18th) in the 90 second exposure ending at 04:43:27 EDT. Let…
Public Observing Session – Saturday April 14th, 2012 21:00EDT
Yello! This is your monthly funtime reminder for our Open House happening at the Queen’s Observatory. The event will run from 9.00pm to 10.30pm on Saturday, April 14th. Please take…
radiojove antenna modifications
Radiojove antennas at 15′ RadioJove antennas at 10′ It’s that time of year (April 2012).. or years, that the average declination of Jupiter is increasing, from a minimum in 2008…