looking for winter tires?
We have for sale a set of four winter wheels (tire and rims) as they are not the same size as our new vehicle, otherwise we would still be using…
warm fall continues
Even though we’ve had more than a dozen if not two dozen nights of frost, it continues to be warm in the area. Weather is nothing if not variable. The…
Data flows here
We are starting to get some serious data flowing around here. This is a fairly live and uptodate display of the SolarRadioTelescope, Allskycamera and FMMeteordetection project data: SCO-SRT dataarchive imagearchive…
Prep
Always a good idea to prep for a star party… in advance! Case in point, Fall’N’Stars 2010 Last year, you may remember, we took the Centre’s portable power pack (the…
Nearing the End of July
It’s been a very busy month but here are a few quick highlights of the last few weeks. * New deer fence: We built a 7′ high deer fence around…
Relay for Life
The Cancer Society Relay for Life was held in Napanee on Friday June 11th and we attended with telescopes and 100 packages of handouts with various astronomical stuff inside (Terry…
deck stains
Staining decks… I knew I had forgotten to do something the last few years. Looking back, I think we stained it back in 2002 and it was showing a lot…
Winter woes
Some months back, our wind speed sensor iced up. When I got up there atop a stepladder seated on snow, in an attempt to loosen it and get it spinning…
too cold for wind?
We had a lot of wind blow through last night… yet the weather station reports everything as calm calm calm. #*&(@(& wind speed sensor is iced up again. Such is…
winter is coming
It has been pretty mild up to now… only one big storm with snow and then rain and then freezeup, but all in all not too bad. In the next…
double rainbow
One cloudy rainy day in October the sun peaked out just enough to throw up this gorgeous double rainbow over the house on some dark clouds. Photography does not do…