December?
Wow.. another December already? Already three months plus past our first total solar eclipse, out in Southeastern Wyoming. We continue on experimenting with Raspberry Pi model 2B microcomputers and have…
LED lighting
Another major light fixture has bitten the dust. Our kitchen light fixture had 3x60watt incandescent bulbs. It was really never enough light for the kitchen and so when we came…
Potatos 2017
It looks like I forgot to post back May the type and numbers of potatos we planted. Since I am about to talk about what we harvested, it would be…
Garden Prep
The first step in Garden Prep is to get your (*&#^$@#% machinery working again! Our tiller has worked great for 2 or 3 years now… will tear through all kinds…
Solar Totality 20170821
This is it. Totality. The complete eclipse of the Sun by the Moon. It was a long trip from the Kingston Ontario area to Wyoming and a longer trip back.…
Total Solar Eclipse raw video
This is the complete video that we have from the Total Solar Eclipse from south of Jay Em Wyoming on Monday 2017 August 21st. The camcorder does record a timestamp…
20170821 Solar Eclipse
This is the first processing run of the total solar eclipse video shot on Monday 2017 August 21 south of Jay Em Wyoming. We used Movie Maker that comes with…
Tardis Observatory goings on
This has been our constant companion for a month now… a snake in the observatory. Ewwwww. At least he still leaves fairly easily when pushed out the door. The Torus…
dangers of working in observatories
We spent some time working on the Torus telescope and Tardis observatory yesterday.. maybe an hour working on the wheels and rail transport and then moved inside to work on…
testing the lens
We purchased a canon 75-300mm zoom lens for astronomy purposed, but have not yet had a lot of chance to try it out. So in the daylight of the backyard…
Middle of May
Here we are in the middle of May already. The Black Flies, here for two weeks now, continue to inhibit all outdoor activity. Event with bug hats, jackets and gloves,…
Jupiter 20170413
This is from Thursday evening, after we left the dinner. .Possibly the best results of the year, in terms of size, seeing and transparency. Wish I could have stayed awake…
Jupiter 20170131
brr.. even a little colder this morn… -17C but no wind at all. The roof opened up fine and it looked pretty clear. The forecast was supposed to be 60%…
2016 Review
Every end of year, we put together a year end review letter and send out to friends and family. More and more over the years it is trending to pictures…