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…
bunnies and network cables
Just over two years ago, rogue bunnies ate through our ethernet cat 5 cable to the observatory. It was spliced together and wrapped up in the cold of the winter…
Murphy’s Point Provincial Park
We had camped at Murphy’s Point Provincial Park, starting on Friday to help fellow Kingston Centre member Frank Hitchens set up for observing at night. We hung out at the…
KAON Public Observing
Title: KAON Public ObservingLocation: Queens Ellis Hall ObservatoryLink out: Click hereDescription: A short (20 minute) lecture on some astronomical topic followed by tours of the Observatory and weather permitting, telescope…
Public Observing
Title: Public ObservingLocation: Murphys Point Provincial ParkDescription: RASC-KC member Frank Hitchens will give a slide show and telescope viewing for the public (weather permitting).Start Time: 20:30 EDTDate: 2009-07-18
allsky automation success
The allsky camera system, as it stands, is now completely automated. We had success last night with the mouse scripts where before something was always going wrong. A typical night…
UPS
We’ve had a few short power outages thanks to passing lightning storms plus some outages of the main data logging workstation we have that are a little mysterious. After looking…
allsky ghost mouse
We finally found a macro recording mouse program that allowed us to record the mouse strokes and clicks required to click on the Connect button in CCDOps, click on the…
allsky mpeg fails
Looks like the upgrade to Linux Fedora 11 broke something… the image magick conversion process of *.jpg into today.mpeg has been failing since the upgrade. Will have to track that…
Last big IYA event until the fall
Last night was our last big event of the International Year of Astronomy until the fall. It was a Public Lecture at BioSciences Complex Room 1101 Queens University with Prof.…
Cancer Society Relay for Life
Friday June 5th, 2009 was our 4th appearance at the Cancer Society Relay for Life event, this year at the Royal Military College Parade Ground. Kim & I arrived on…
Planets in the morning
This is one of many images from Tuesday morning, watching Venus rise in the east just after 4am and Jupiter already well up in the southeast. We went out that…
packed weekend
Wow… Friday night was busy prepping for Saturdays May 2nd Astronomy Day… and then we spent 8 hours down in Market Square showing people the sun with a Coronado solarmax…
busy astroweekend
Saturday April 4th was supposed to be a three hour public solar observing session down at City Hall in Kingston… we got clouded out. Later that night we held a…