Category: astronomy

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Saturday was a good day .. not only did we get to see a nice aurora, we also came across this sun column near sunset on 2012 feb 18th. “These…

Unannounced, unpredicted aurora made an appearance on Saturday night, 2012 February 18th. We were on our way home and noticed actuall bright pillars in the north. By the time we…

The allsky laptop computer had a drive failure Friday around midnight. Since then we’ve been running drive diagnostics and repair attempts until just this morning it is back up and…

The Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) held an open house/public observing session last night at the Queen’s University Ellis Hall Observatory. It’s always a good night when you are on…

For the first time in simply ages! we had time and weather and temperature and no clouds all at the same time.. enough to go outside and take a quick…