Magnificent ISS Pass
The International Space Station (ISS) made an overhead pass this morning that was caught on 4 frames of the allsky camera. These were stitched together with a small delay into…
Earth Hour Saturday March 31st, 2012
We observed Earth Hour on Saturday March 31st, 2012 from 20:00-21:00. Whups! The real Earth hour was from 20:30 to 21:30. Oh well.. we shut down everything we could, went…
triple conjunction 2012 march 26
Another nice clear night for imaging the conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter in this 15 second exposure with a Canon Powershot A540 on a tripod. It was very…
triple conjunction 2012 march 25th
This is the triple conjunction of Venus (top), the Moon and Jupiter (bottom), in a 15 second exposure with a Canon Powershot A540 camera on a tripod. This completes a…
CAVE Lecture in Astronomy
CAVE Memorial Lecture Location: Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy Stirling Hall Theatre D, Bader Lane, Queen’s University Thursday March 29th, 2012 8pm. Chris Impey (University of Arizona) CAVE…
1st day of spring
Tuesday March 20th, 2012. The first day of spring with temperature at home hitting 29 deg C. In reality they probably did not hit quite that high as the outdoor…
Almost new moon
3 days before the new moon, before sunrise on Monday morning March 19th, 2012. This 15 second exposure was taken with a Canon powershot A495 camera on a tripod, looking…
Jupiter & Venus apparition
This is the series of nights where it has been clear, we’ve been home and able to do some imaging with our Canon Powershot A495 and A540 cameras on tripods.…
Clear skies before the storm
This morning a series of thunderstorms started rolling through the area, starting around 03:30 or so. We had many close by lightning strikes and at least two power outages. One…
KAON Public Observing Session 2012 March 10th
We held the March Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) session with the Queens Observatory Open house Saturday night from 7:30-9:00pm EST. Dr. Kristine Spekkens (Royal Military College) gave the 7:35-8:15…
More Jupiter & Venus
Here are two images from Sunday night after 21:00edt from our backyard, looking west at Jupiter (left) and Venus (right). The left image is a 15 second exposure and the…
Sheffield Conservation Area
Lennox and Addington County is considering setting up an observing area in the Sheffield Conservation Area, just off highway41 between Erinsville and Kaladar. We went up to check the place…
Three planet conjunction
Ok.. at least a two planet conjunction with Jupiter and Venus very close together in the Western sky. Going from left to right, Jupiter is first, Venus is second, Mercury…
Conjunction
Last night, Saturday Feberuary 25th, 2012 we got home late, could not drive into the driveway due to the too high snowplow created ridge and had to stop outside on…
Venus and Jupiter
Monday evening 2012 February 20, it was not too cold, it was clear, and we were not too sick from colds and flu. So outside we go to find Venus…