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…
Busy few astro days
It’s been busy for some of the members of the RASC-KC in the last few days. First Hank’s brother scores with good video of the Saskatchewan fireball (spaceweather page). Then…
Newest meteorite addition
Once a year or so the Queen’s University the Geological Museum puts on a sale of sorts as a fundraiser. In the past we kept on missing it, and only…
Days are getting shorter
These days when we get out of work and start heading out through traffic to get out of town, we take a detour along the waterfront of Lake Ontario. Sometimes…
Linux is great!
More years now we have been running various cameras pointed up at the sky, hoping for pretty pictures of clouds but more importantly, pretty pictures of meteors and fireballs. Robert…
Serendipity Rules!
So, I’ve heard that Astronomy is a boring hobby. Nothing ever happens. Yesterday however, put those comments to rest in a trash bin. Yesterday, fellow astrodude Hank had brother Andy…
And more clear skies
Sunday evening November 02 we went out for a quick peak at a near conjunction of Venus, the crescent moon and Jupiter, all within the field of view of our…
Clear Skies in November
For the first time in I don’t know how long, we had some spare time, it was clear, and we got outside for an hour of observing. It was nice……
Allsky Camera trials
We have been attempting to commission an AllSky Camera for some time now. It helps when the clouds go away 🙂 So.. This is an SBIG ST237A camera with a…