winter is coming
It has been pretty mild up to now… only one big storm with snow and then rain and then freezeup, but all in all not too bad. In the next…
Day 3 Leonids
Amazingly enough, this is the 3rd straight day of getting up early early early to observe the Leonid Meteor Shower. The peak was supposed to be yesterday (Tuesday Nov 17)…
More Leonids
Out again early Tuesday morning at 04:00 EST (09:00 UT) to look for Leonids. The skies were pristine but the air was cold.. about -5C. stayed out for about 30…
KAON Public Observing
Title: KAON Public ObservingLocation: Queens Ellis Hall ObservatoryStart Time: 7:30pmDate: 2009-12-12 We will be holding our International Year of Astronomy wrap up this evening, rain snow or shine!
concam image processing
We spent a couple of hours last night researching how to remove the hot pixels from our ST237A allsky camera. These are the bright spots on an image that are…
Fall’N’Stars
Fall’N’Stars 2009 is almost here! The southeastern ontario star party now in its 10th year (2000-2009), even though the first year 2000 it was called DSNOS! Sounds Klingon? What did…
KAON on the Lake
KAON (Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network) Public Observing Session. *SPECIAL DATE* Saturday September 19th 6:30-11:00pm EDT Lake Ontario Park King Street West of Portsmouth Avenue in Kingston Ontario. (Sunset 19:09 EDT)…
T-rex in Saskatchewan
On the way to the Summer Saskatchewan Star Party we stopped off in Eastend Sask to visit Scotty the T-rex and the T-rex Centre. Lizard Lips And this would be…
midwest attractions
Driving out in the American midwest anytime to see things like Badlands National Park in South Dakota? Or within a couple of hours to see this famous place from the…
2nd clear night this week!
2009 A 2nd night of observing in a single week, after months of little or none at all. We took Sky Quality Meter readings with both our own standard version…
Clear Weather at last
We’ve been away for a while and did not get a chance to observe at all during that time. Back home and this past Monday night August 24th was clear…
allsky camera settles down
the saga of the allsky cam continues… after replacing a network switch, resplicing some cat 5 cables , checking and rechecking, we kept getting intermittent failures on the network. After…