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…
Earth Hour
As if you have not been inundated enough with Earth Hour 2009 news, here is another attempt to encourage you to participate. Saturday March 28th from 20:30-21:30 EDT is Earth…
Comet Lulin
2009 We were up very early this morning taking our last look at Comet Lulin for a couple of days… snow on the way… Here is a 15 second exposure…
New scope on display
This is our new Meade DS90 refractor on display at the last months Public Observing Session. The finder battery died pretty quick so we are waiting to replace that before…
Busy weekend
2009 We look so forward to weekends to escape the mind numbing stressful workplace… and then are so busy trying to do some of the items we want to do…
IYA Kickoff1
On the evening of Friday January 9th, 2009 the RASC-Kingston Centre held an International Year of Astronomy kickoff lecture in Stirling Hall. The very next night we held a public…
happy new year
1st day of a new year, start it out with observing in the -18C cold! This is an image of the 5.44 day old moon, 1/160 sec through Starbuck, our…
Concam sees something?
The Allsky Concam saw something last night, most likely a low flying aircraft. It appears on two frames, one at 23:19:05 local and the other at 23:22:25 local. The first…
RASC Kingston Centre meeting
The next meeting of the RASC-Kingston Center is coming up this Friday December 12 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in Stirling Hall Theatre A, Bader Lane on Queen’s University Campus. Parking on…
kingstoniya.ca
It’s been a busy few days what with meeting with the local International Year of Astronomy 2009 group, registering a new domain kingstoniya.ca and setting up the initial web presence…