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…
Observatory Network link back up
A couple of weeks ago we started getting intermittent network connectivity to the observatory and to the two data gathering systems running there. Yesterday the cable break was temporarily repaired.…
test cr2118
This is a test using Picasa v3.9 for cr2118 Success! So, the object is to easily generate a nicely laid out page of thumbnail images linking to the larger resolution…
Radiojove back up
On December 16th, 2011 the laptop computer running the radiojove data logger had a hard drive failure. The Radiojove system continues to run but nothing has been logged or recorded…
GPS Receiver BU-353
One of the christmas (2011) gifts was a USB GPS receiver, the BU353. As it turns out, for our intended uses of using it strictly as an accurate source of…
allsky cleaning
We had time to inspect the allsky camera dome for the first time since its renovation a month ago. Things are looking very good. The inside platform is completely dry,…
Fireball! 2011 Dec 12th, 18:04 EST
We were contacted by local media this afternoon about a possible fireball Monday evening. But with no information about time, location, etc it could have been any of a dozen…
red lithograph saves night vision
The white light image on the left is the way our netbook used to look like outside when we were running the imaging telescope at night. The light on the…
allsky camera modifications
The allsky camera system has been around in its current configuration for some years now, and we’ve been meaning to renovate it for some time now. As seen in this…