Newer radioroom computer upgrade
For 6+ years now our primary data logging computer system, called “radioroom” has been running various software to log data coming from SID1, SID2, FMMeteor, and the Weather Station. When…
New lighting for Kingston City Park
While walking through the park the other day(2013 March 11), I noted that the City of Kingston was in the process of replacing the sidewalk lighting fixtures through the park…
Lasts nights allsky2 summary
The new code written to process the nights images from the allsky2 camera system has worked and the result of last night appears here: This is a compilation of 27…
More Imagemagick tricks
I am attempting to learn how to stack or combine or layer multiple images ontop of each other. Specifically to take all of the images of meteors taken throughout the…
A good weekend
Things are coming along nicely. Radiojove has been showing excellent data since we turned off and removed the desktop allsky1 computer system. It was radiating Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) like…
apache log analysis
Once in awhile one wonders just how many search engines are out there. I wrote up a linux bash script found on the net to analyze the apache web server…
Fedora can be a pain
We tried to do an upgrade on the Fedora 16 linux installation we have here yesterday and it failed completely. The linux Fedora distribution seems to be getting more tempermental…
Imagemagick and allsky1 camera image processing
Updated Thursday August 9th: Well, that did and did not work. Most of the noise went away but enough stayed to make it tough to analyze. Not only that, the…
imagemagick noise function broken?
For some years now, we’ve used the ImageMagick package on a linux server to process our allsky1 camera images, in particular to remove noise. For some reason, that function has…
linux fedora 15 to 16 upgrade
We’ve been running linux fedora 15 on our house server for some time… too long apparently as support for it and the updates that go along with it stopped on…
New Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) receiver goes live
We recently received a SID receiver that will detect solar storms impacting the Earth’s Ionosphere. It consists of a coiled loop antenna, in our case oriented east-west, connected to the…
Weather sensors
Weather sensor positioning is very much a fine art. Over the 10 years of running a weather station here at Starlight Cascade Observatory & Gardens, we have moved the sensors…
Graphics coprocessors (GPUs)
In the great scheme of processing SETI@Home radio telescope data since 1999 April 12, I have mostly relied on well-behind-the-leading-edge of computer hardware. A few months ago I was fortunate…