20240408 total solar eclipse – allsky1
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…
20240408 total solar eclipse – radio jove
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…
Jupiter 20240317
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…
Jupiter 20240312
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…
Lunar Mosaic v3
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…
Jupiter 2024Feb14
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…
Autostakkert!V3 vs V4
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!…
Jupiter 20240129 and its funky moons
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.…
Meade DS90 telescope and mount
This is a short 480p video that shows the issue with this donated telescope.
(10062) kim hay imaged!
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…
Jupiter 20240101
2023 ended with 55 observatory imaging sessions, slightly above the goal of 50 set one year ago. The goal this year is 60 imaging sessions. 2024 started well Monday evening…
Geminid Meteor Shower 2023Dec14
Above/left is the night of Dec 12/13 Below is the SCGO Allsky2/UWO10 camera system meteor detection summary image showing 57 events of Dec 13/14. This system is designed for fireballs…
Supersid 2023Dec
The SCGO Supersid system has been running since 2016. For the first few years it ran on a windows computer with windows supersid software. This 2023 spring we moved to…
Jupiter 2023Nov24
It was a busy busy Friday evening.. what with it being the only clear night for the next week or so. The new ZWO miniscope was mounted to the Vixen…
Minor Planet (20021) Kevinkell
(20021) Kevinkell = 1991 VM6 Discovery: 1991-11-06 / E. W. Elst / La Silla / 809 Kevin Kell (b. 1963) is a Canadian amateur astronomer who has served RASC Kingston…