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…
Aurora in Yarker
The sun has been quite active in the last few days, ejecting solar matter into space, and on August 5, 2011 some of this matter hit the earth’s atmosphere, and…
Approaching new moon
Kim captured this thin crescent moon during sunrise on a Thursday morning, July 28th, 2011, two days before new moon.
So far a great week…..
It has been a great week so far. July 25, 2011 Monday, it rained, we needed it. There was a sunrise, and it was raining. Later notes from others said…
robodome goes home
It is with a sad heart that we took the robodome to its home today. We are very disappointed that we were unable to make the entire system work as…
radio jove results
Whenever you set up a new data collection system, it is necessary to verify or calibrate it against some other standard to make sure that it is actually working. Yesterday…
VLF SRT repairs
The 40khz Solar Radio Telescope has been showing a flatline of data for the last few days. Last night we spotted the problem… the main antenna lead was hanging lose.…
radiojove skypipe issues
So, we continued to get strange error messages from the radiojove skypipe installation and thought that it was network file related. We switched skypipe over to save data locally to…