Relay for Life
The Cancer Society Relay for Life was held in Napanee on Friday June 11th and we attended with telescopes and 100 packages of handouts with various astronomical stuff inside (Terry…
Theres something about concrete
For the last several months, we have noticed some motion in one or our two telescope piers in the observatory. This is never a good thing. The piers were built…
Spring Projects
While we are waiting for the ground to warm up and continue the gardening that we started in the last couple of weeks of really really warm weather (28 deg…
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!