Category: astronomy

With the installation of a custom metal adapter, the moonlight focuser is now mounted to the Vixen VC200L cassegrain scope. The old focuser was disconnected from power and remains in…

After 2-3 years of attempts, this snapshot of the full moon may be finally the image I was looking for. No other combination of telescope, camera lens, and camera gave…

Science Rendezvous Kingston is an educational outreach event led by Queen’s University. This year again it was held in the downtown area, recently renamed to the Slush Puppy Place, on…

The first major aurora we have seen since 2023 March 23… it’s been a long time. This is the allsky1 camera footage in the form of a video This is…

This website was brought to our attention and it a great aid in planning to image minor planets! https://doncarona.tamu.edu/apps/minorbody/opposition/ https://kingston.rasc.ca/asteroids The following RASC-KC members and past members who have had…

One of the many data recorders we had running during the eclipse, was our allsky1 camera system, configured to take images in the daytime. It saved one to two images…

For those that have to deal with clouds interfering with visual astronomy, we have some words for you: Radio Astronomy! Our Radiojove telescope system was up and running during the…

The SCGO Serenity Observatory Imaging Kit was disassembled for maintenance and possible upgrades as the forecast was rain rain rain snow for the next serveral days. And then of course…

Last night was the first opportunity in some days to do some more work on the mount. Previously I had raised the mount adapter by 2cm and also… forgot to…

This is the 3rd version of the lunar mosaic that was created with autostakkert! v4, registax and ms image composite editor (ICE). The first one was overexposed (1ms), the second…

Planetary Imaging during a RASCKC monthly meeting. I love it! This was from the evening of Wednesday 2024 Feb14th and seeing and transparency seemed to be almost dare I say…

I was made aware of an update to Autostakkert! a mainstay of my astronomical image processing. I have been using V3 for some years now… V4 is now out. AutoStakkert!…

An unusual sequence of events occurred with Jupiter and its moons on the evening of Monday 2024 January 29th. The moon Europa moving right to left, disappeared in behind Jupiter.…

This is a short 480p video that shows the issue with this donated telescope.

A great big thank you to Malcolm for his imaging of Minor Planet (10062) kimhay last night… from Chile! 12 x 600s exposures TEC140 at 1024mm focal length, f/7 with…