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…
Sun Column
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…
allsky operational again
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…
KAON Feb 11, 2012
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…
Thursday observing
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…