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…
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…