telescope mods
Wednesday Nov 2nd saw us install a new dew shield for the LX200 made from camping foamy mattress and duct tape:) That and a 12vdc 1amp power supply to run…
Jupiter at opposition
According to our 2011 RASC Observers calendar, Jupiter was at opposition yesterday, Friday October 28th. So we were out looking at it at 6:30am EDT for a short time in…
sbig st237a oddities
Yesterday we noticed that the Allsky camera CCD temperature was listed as 0 deg C. That might happen if the night is particularly warm (say 20-25 deg C) but that…
Fall’N’Stars 2011
Fall’N’Stars 2011 Star Party The 12th Annual Star Party of the Belleville & Kingston Centres of the RASC was held on the weekend of Sept 23-25 and was a blast.…
Processing .FITS image headers
For some years now we have wanted to process the .FITS allsky camera original images a little better. Specifically it would be nice to pull out the CCD Temperature and…
New observing project!
You may remember reading the article earlier about our pier failure. After we decided to reuse refurbish and make the pier operational agian, a projcet idea developed to put a…
telescope maintenance
The RASC-KC’s 20cm Fitzgerald telescope has been dedicated to the KAON Queens University Observatory Open House nights for eight years now and it hasn’t been looked at for at least…
Comet Garradd
On the morning of September 2nd, 2011 we went outside nice and early (03:00 local) to observe Comet Garradd. This image is a wide angle 64 second shot of the…
Pier failure
Some time ago we wrote an article about one of our observatory piers had become loose with cracked concete and that we had patched it with liquid concrete patch last…
Bright meteor 2011 Aug 27 01:28 UT
Kim, ever intrepid astronomer, got me outside when I was ready to pack it in for the day and am I ever glad we went outside. Skies were clear after…
Charleston Lake Star Gaze 2011
We just returned (early) from Charleston Lake Provincial Park (Ontario), from a couple of days of camping and from attending Terence Dickinson’s (Skynews Magazone) 26th! Charleston Lake Provincial Park Star…
Radio Jove
Our radio jove receiver and audio speakers moved from sitting atop a floor shelf to being hung up on the wall, more out of the way, less chance of cables…