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…
Telescope Repair
The main telescope Kim uses for solar observing is a Bausch & Lomb 4000 Schmidt-Cass. She uses it to make daily (if at all possible) observations of sunspots with a…
weekend notes
GLOBE at Night: encourages citizen-scientists worldwide to record the brightness of the night sky. During 2 weeks of moonless evenings, children and adults match the appearance of a constellation (Leo…
RASC Kingston
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre, had its regular monthly meeting Friday March 11th, 2011 at 7:30pm in Stirling Hall Theatre A, 64 Bader Lane on Queen’s…
Discovery/ISS Pass#2
The Space Shuttle Discovery and the international Space Station on the evening of Tuesday March 8th on a low 30 degree pass in the west, southwest and south. All images…
Discovery/ISS Pass
While waiting for the Space Shuttle and ISS to pass over, we saw this awesome display of the crescent moon and Jupiter low in the western skies: The Space Shuttle…
ISS Passes upcoming
The space shuttle discovery is currently docked with the International Space Station and has been passing overhead our area for the last few days. Coming up soon will be a…
Welcome to March
Kim was up before Sunrise and took this image of the crescent Moon and Venus in the south east, just over Kingston. It was gorgeous. This newer camera is definitely…
allsky image processing changes
We’ve noticed for the last few months that the images coming out of the allsky camera were dimmer and lower contrast than previous images. So after a couple of hours…
seti@home issues
The seti@home project has been quite a lot the last few weeks and as a result we went out and added in a 2nd project to most of the computers…
catching up
It’s been busy the last couple of weeks: * Snow and more snow. The Great Groundhog Day Blizzard hit on Feb 2nd and left us with a pile. * WordPress…