Linux Fedora 16 upgrade complete
The series of updates to the linux fedora servers completed on Saturday November 19th, 2011. There were a few small issues but they seem to have been resolved for the…
Fedora 16 Linux coming soon
Fedora 16 linux will be released shortly and we have at least 9 machines that will need the upgrade, scheduled for the next week or two, depending on how things…
old hardware stories
I need to test a new linux based samba run domain controller at work. So I pull out an old (10 year) spare box that has: pentium 4 celeron @2.66GHz,…
sbig st237a oddities
Yesterday we noticed that the Allsky camera CCD temperature was listed as 0 deg C. That might happen if the night is particularly warm (say 20-25 deg C) but that…
Processing .FITS image headers
For some years now we have wanted to process the .FITS allsky camera original images a little better. Specifically it would be nice to pull out the CCD Temperature and…
Radio Jove
Our radio jove receiver and audio speakers moved from sitting atop a floor shelf to being hung up on the wall, more out of the way, less chance of cables…
Ontario electricity
We’ve been on time-of-use electricity use billing for some months now, and subscribed to the HydroOne account system where we can monitor power usage on an hour by hour basis.…
VLF SRT repairs
The 40khz Solar Radio Telescope has been showing a flatline of data for the last few days. Last night we spotted the problem… the main antenna lead was hanging lose.…
radiojove skypipe issues
So, we continued to get strange error messages from the radiojove skypipe installation and thought that it was network file related. We switched skypipe over to save data locally to…
radio skypipe problems
The new radiojove radio telescope has been up and running for a few days now. Data is coming in but there is a troubling side effect. The Radio Skypipe II…
Radio Jove operational
Our Radio Jove Radio telescope is up and operational. We assembled the final bits of the system on Friday April 29th, just after the Royal Wedding. It involved accurately measuring…