Blast from the past
This is an image from our old type I Barn Door tracker (from 1999), a wooden wedge designed for the barn door tracker (1999) and a wooden tripod that we…
-8 Iridium Flare
Saturday saw a raw Magnitude -8 Iridium flare over our observatory. This was in the southeast about 49 deg altitude. Mars was just above it and the group of stars…
solstice time!
Winter Solstice came by yesterday (Monday Dec 21, 2009) at 12:57pm EST. We did a little dance around the fire to celebrate… ok.. it was the BBQ. But we still…
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…