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…
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…