Garlic Planting 2022
And it is DONE! The SCGO Garlic Planting of 2022. It went quicker and easier than past years, thanks to a lot of prep work up front. cracking the bulbs…
Today’s Gardening Adventures
The day started out cold -2C but the sun was shining. The wind coming from the SSW at 11 km/h and gusty. I quickly got out to do some Solar…
Local seeing is not good
Tuesday evening around 20:00 local I opened up the observatory with the intent to do an optical collimation and some imaging of Saturn and Jupiter. It was hazy, The near…
20 years of frost
This is the data from our weather station located current in our vegetable beds out back. The station is approx 2m above ground in a grassy/earthen area, well area from…
Jupiter 20220930
This is the first image of Jupiter since the 2022 opposition (4 days past opposition). Altitude was at max , seeing and transparency were average, but the focus still was…
Fireball 20220924 00:36:05 UTC
Greetings! Another great fireball event captured by the UWO Yarker 10 (SCGO allsky2) camera system Friday evening at 20:36:05 EDT. At least 5 people saw this visually, directly at the…
SCGO Garlic Harvest 2022
garlicplanting2022 PDF The first draft of the results of the 2021-2022 garlic crop at SCGO. There is still more data that needs to be transcribed but this is the first…
Autostakkert, CPU and RAM part 2
Greetings! This is Autostakkert! v3.1.4 – 64 bit I have gone through three computers in the last two years, that I use for astronomical image processing. Each one was a…
Autostakkert, CPU and RAM part 1
Greetings! This is Autostakkert! v3.1.4 – 64 bit I have gone through three computers in the last two years, that I use for astronomical image processing. Each one was a…
Jupiter 2022 Sept 02 evening
And again a first in ages… a second imaging run in the same day, the first early on Friday morning, this second run late on Friday evening. Jupiter is still…
Saturn 20220902 Evening
And this is from the same day as last but in the evening observing session… first time in ages that there was a morning and an evening session! Too bad…
Verona 2022 Garlic Fest
The 2022 Garlic Fest in Verona has come and gone .. and that reminds me that the SCGO garlic harvest has come and gone as well. The weather was perfect…
Jupiter 2022Sept02 morning
From the morning of Friday 2022 Sept 02 after doing some runs of imaging Saturn. As it turns out, this 4 or 5th imaging session, the exposure started to drop…
Saturn 20220902
Saturn on the morning of Friday 2022Sept02. North is up, altitude only 28 degrees above the horizon. I count seven distinct cloud bands north of the rings. I found a…
Jupiter 2022August28
This is the massive planet Jupiter in the early morning hours of Sunday 2022August28. There are 39 usable runs of 180seconds each with a 120second delay between each, resulting in…