Old Man Winter just won’t leave
The calendar say’s its spring, the daffodils coming up, the sounds of the frogs which showed up on April 3 say its spring,but the temperatures and the wet snow that…
busy astroweekend
Saturday April 4th was supposed to be a three hour public solar observing session down at City Hall in Kingston… we got clouded out. Later that night we held a…
Great Saturday
warm, sunny and a little bit of sunburn while re-roofing the greenhouse. The original roof was plain plywood and paint and that didn’t last too long before it started leaking.…
Earth Hour
As if you have not been inundated enough with Earth Hour 2009 news, here is another attempt to encourage you to participate. Saturday March 28th from 20:30-21:30 EDT is Earth…
Spring has sprung
At 7:44 am 11:44 UT Spring officially came, and asked Old man winter to leave. The skies were clear and the moon hung in the SE like a Christmas tree…
Gardening with Ed Lawrence
Last Thursday March 12th, we attended a lecture by Ed Lawrence, a master gardener with a regular call-in program on CBC Radio. Maybe 30-35 minutes of the time was spent…
Comet Lulin
2009 We were up very early this morning taking our last look at Comet Lulin for a couple of days… snow on the way… Here is a 15 second exposure…
New scope on display
This is our new Meade DS90 refractor on display at the last months Public Observing Session. The finder battery died pretty quick so we are waiting to replace that before…
Busy weekend
2009 We look so forward to weekends to escape the mind numbing stressful workplace… and then are so busy trying to do some of the items we want to do…
ground hog day + 1
A lot of little catch up items .. groundhog day was yesterday and with groundhogs only at 39% with their predictions, at least the big 3 all agreed on seeing…
IYA Kickoff1
On the evening of Friday January 9th, 2009 the RASC-Kingston Centre held an International Year of Astronomy kickoff lecture in Stirling Hall. The very next night we held a public…
BSG returns tonight!
I don’t know about you, but we are going to settle down in front of a large warm fire, with a nice warm pizza with a lot of nice warm…