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…
allsky laptop2
The original 7 year old laptop suffered a complete hard drive failure some days back and we have just acquired another, slightly newer laptop, only 6 years old :).. hmm…
Supernova!
Congratulations to Kathryn Gray on her discovery of Supernovae SN2010lt in UGC 3378 (imaged on December 31, 2010 and discovered on January 2, 2011 and confirmed on IAU Electronic Telegram…
outdoor laptop
There seems to be a fine line of what exactly you can do with a laptop in the outdoors in the winter. The replacement allsky computer was outside the first…
the story of moving an imaging system
Tuesday night we spent about 3 hours transferring the allsky camera workstation setup from a desktop machine to an old laptop machine. One reason was that a desktop machine was…
Allsky down for upgrades
The allsky camera workstation has been removed from service and a new replacement system is being setup using a laptop. The old workstation was an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ running…
roboscope moves
The RASC-KC roboscope project has been in the works for a few years and has run into technical stumbling blocks too numerous to list. So we have dismantled the telescope,…
Our entries
Our entries in the Shoot the Stars Contest were all taken with a consumer Canon Powershot A540 sitting on a tripod just outside Yarker Ontario. It was using the modified…
Shoot the stars
http://www.lennox-addington.on.ca/things-to-do/experience-the-outdoors/star-gazing.html The results of the photo contest are in: And the winners are… First Place: Dave Deacon, Cloyne won $250 for his photo “The Way'”. Second Place: Jay Dearborn, Yarker,…
warm fall continues
Even though we’ve had more than a dozen if not two dozen nights of frost, it continues to be warm in the area. Weather is nothing if not variable. The…