happy new year
1st day of a new year, start it out with observing in the -18C cold! This is an image of the 5.44 day old moon, 1/160 sec through Starbuck, our…
Big Solar
The great Stone Mills Solar Project is one step closer to reality. While driving by the site this past weekend we came across the 2nd and 3rd signs of progress.…
Twas a stormy Xmas Eve
Phew… We had some kind of windstorm blow through here Christmas Eve. It turned out that it sounded worse than it really was. The weather station showed gusts up to…
Concam sees something?
The Allsky Concam saw something last night, most likely a low flying aircraft. It appears on two frames, one at 23:19:05 local and the other at 23:22:25 local. The first…
Disaster in the Greenhouse
Saturday December 20, a bright sunny day after a blizzard storm on Friday, and Kevin goes to check the greenhouse. I have had seeds in paper bags drying out, not…
wireless N
We installed a new wireless router today, a Dlink DIR-615. Our older Linksys wrt54g had some issues. When uploading large (100’s Mb) files over wireless, the router would reset, disconnecting…
wordpress upgrade
upgraded to a release candidate for the new and upcoming wordpress. The upgrade went fairly well. The full release came out the next day and the automatic upgrades worked as…
RASC Kingston Centre meeting
The next meeting of the RASC-Kingston Center is coming up this Friday December 12 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in Stirling Hall Theatre A, Bader Lane on Queen’s University Campus. Parking on…
kingstoniya.ca
It’s been a busy few days what with meeting with the local International Year of Astronomy 2009 group, registering a new domain kingstoniya.ca and setting up the initial web presence…
Power outage
We had a 4 hour long power outage this morning at home. Always a surprise to see how great your preparedness is not. 🙂 It is always good in a…
Busy few astro days
It’s been busy for some of the members of the RASC-KC in the last few days. First Hank’s brother scores with good video of the Saskatchewan fireball (spaceweather page). Then…
Newest meteorite addition
Once a year or so the Queen’s University the Geological Museum puts on a sale of sorts as a fundraiser. In the past we kept on missing it, and only…