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…
radio skypipe problems
The new radiojove radio telescope has been up and running for a few days now. Data is coming in but there is a troubling side effect. The Radio Skypipe II…
Radio Jove operational
Our Radio Jove Radio telescope is up and operational. We assembled the final bits of the system on Friday April 29th, just after the Royal Wedding. It involved accurately measuring…
Radio Jove receiver assembly
We did it. After 2? 3? years of having other things happening in life get in the way, we assembled the Radio Jove RJ1.1 Receiver Kit, a 20.1MHz radio receiver.…
New Dew Heaters
Back last fall I was fortunate enough to win a $50 gift certificate from Kendrick Astro Instruments in Toronto at the Fall’N’Stars Star Party 2010. I had won one in…
Tech talk for wednesday
The day or two after? the allsky camera system captured a great big fireball in the sky it failed to show any images tuesday morning. We use VNC to remote…
Allsky event 2011-04-10 00:48
Was anyone observing outside after midnight early Sunday morning? The reason I ask is that our allsky camera caught an anomaly, that if it were a meteor, was spectacular. Below…
Earth Hour March 26th 2011
Earth Hour ran from 20:30 to 21:30 EDT saturday night and we participated by turning off all lights and a lot of other electrical equipment around the house. We spent…
Globe@night
We participated in the Globe at Night starcount on the evening of Saturday March 26th, 2011 It was a clear cold night with some wind and that made it challenging…